by Hillary DePiano | Nov 15, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources
Today is November 15. You know what that means? It means you should be halfway done with your NaNoWriMo novel right now. In other words, if you’re trying to hit a word count of 50,000 you should be at 25,000 by the end of today. Take a look at your current word...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 7, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
We’re entering the second week of NaNoWriMo and you’ve probably heard the warnings already. NaNoWriMo week two is shrouded in infamy. It’s not really the second week’s fault, it has more to do with where you are in your story at this point in...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I realize I never talked about what I was going write for NaNoWriMo on this blog. Pretty funny, when you consider how much talking about NaNoWriMo I’ve been doing.First let’s talk about the projects I’m in the middle of:Editing: one nonfiction book,...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 27, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Most of the things I’ve posted about NaNoWriMo have to do more with the writing, about getting your story to the 50,000 word mark and beyond. Now however I want to focus a little bit more on the nitty-gritty. I think you should separate your NaNoWriMo novel into...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 27, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
Regular readers know that I’ve been having some serious problems with my hands since late June. In short, I cannot use my hands for using the computer mouse, playing video games or… typing. So about now you’re probably wondering, how is she going to...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 26, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
We’re all writers, right? But the sneaky little fact is that most of us are totally nerds too. I’m a total nerd about NaNoWriMo. You probably guessed that when you saw my NaNoWriMo Advanced Word Count Calculator. (If you want to see my nerdiness up close,...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
