by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Some parts of a novel are much easier to write than others. Those first few words? Terrifying! But once you get going, things will go pretty smoothly in the beginning. Words will just be spilling out, you’ll be excited about your story and then… boom. You’ll hit a...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 30, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Your story won’t be the length you think it is. At some point over the course of the month, 50,000 words is going to feel like an impossible amount to write, every word like drawing blood. There are also going to be days when you’re sitting there saying, “I...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 29, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
They’ll be writers who write much faster or slower than you do . Some writers will actually hit their entire 50,000 word count within the first day or so of the competition, their counts ballooning past 100 or even 200 thousand words. On the other side,...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Most of the time, you’ll hate what you write. Your ideas are so awesome in your head but when you write them down on paper they seem like garbage. You’ll get discouraged and frustrated and start to doubt yourself so I want to make sure you know ahead of...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 27, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
You’ll have to make sacrifices and prioritize your writing. This comes as a shock to many people with dreams of writing anything at all so let’s just get this out there right now: Writing is work and it takes time. Maybe you have a job, kids and a variety...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 26, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Writing is easy. Writing is hard. You’ll hear two different voices throughout the month. “NaNoWriMo is so much fun!” say that people for whom it’s going well. Meanwhile, the people who are having trouble are complaining that NaNoWriMo is stupid,...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
