by Hillary DePiano | Nov 7, 2011 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, Personally...
So, for posterity, we had a freakish out of season snowstorm on October 29th. Because there were still leaves on the trees, the snow pulled down many, many branches and whole trees. If you aren’t in the area, it’s really hard to explain just how massive...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 4, 2011 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Your main character whispered her name to you in a dream. You feel the name of your romantic lead like it came through a direct channel from your muse. You’re just about to write the scene when they go to her workplace when you realize you don’t have a...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 3, 2011 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
You’ve been working hard on your NaNoWriMo novel. You’re feeling pretty proud of your word count. Heh. Look at that loud mouth from the forums, she’s only got 100 words. You showed her. Then you notice that your other friend has double the number of...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 2, 2011 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
The beginning of NaNoWriMo is exciting. You’re full of fire, you love your novel and everything is just so darn fun. You’d be foolish not to take advantage of that and use that spirit to get ahead on your word count early. Life happens. Things come up. You...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 1, 2011 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Writing Advice and Resources
This is the single most important lesson that NaNoWriMo has to teach you. Learning this has helped me more in my writing than any other class, book or article I have ever read. When writing a first draft of anything, article, novel, short story… Just keep...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 1, 2011 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Heh. That title rhymes. NaNoWriMo buddies are a long standing tradition of National Novel Writing Month. Sometimes they take the feature down while relaunching the site but we always get them back before the competition really starts. To add any other NaNoWriMo user...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
