by Hillary DePiano | Nov 10, 2014 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
For years, I used to wait until I had a good stretch of time to write. I’d get myself comfy in my favorite chair, get my favorite drink ready, have my special writing music playing and work on my book for hours. Sounds good, right? Except for the fact that long...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 3, 2014 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
It’s a ton of fun to listen to Chris Baty talk about the early days of NaNoWriMo and how this crazy event got started. If you missed the live webinar that Blurb hosted on October 20th which also featured NaNoWriMo Executive Director Grant Faulkner, you can catch...
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...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
