by Hillary DePiano | Nov 30, 2016 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Here’s what November 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 765,239/600,000 words (128%) <- we’ll discuss this at length in a future post Monthly Goal My original goal was to pass last year’s count of 117,716 but then I was like, haha, are you DAFT,...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 29, 2016 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
If you’ve been waiting for the chance, to buy All The Plays by Hillary DePiano, now’s your chance! Both YouthPLAYS and Playscripts, who between them have 9 of my plays available, are running holiday sales but you gotta be quick to take advantage because...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 29, 2016 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I’m a volunteer with NaNoWriMo and it always amazes me how many participants are completely shocked to learn that NaNoWriMo isn’t completely flush with cash because everyone’s heard of them, haven’t they? It’s easy to get the idea in your...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 25, 2016 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
At the moment I’m writing this, I’m 42,488 words behind on my goal for NaNoWriMo. On my lesser goal? I’m 24,772 words behind. Yeesh. That’s a big deficit. And if I can’t hit my goal, what’s the point of writing anymore at all? It...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 14, 2016 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I had a pep talk all ready for this week that was your standard NaNoWriMo stuff but I scrapped it because we’ve had anything but a standard NaNoWriMo this year and it’s silly to ignore the elephant in the room. (Pun intended.) How can IÂ be all “Rah...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2016 | Living the Writing Life
Here’s what October 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 662,661/600,000 words (110%) Monthly Goal Only goal this month was to get ready for NaNoWriMo which wasn’t numerically based. Total Words Written 50,370 words Average Words Per Day 1,625 words Things...