by Hillary DePiano | Oct 30, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#11 Write what you like. Forget about writing what you know. Write what you like. No Plot No Problem suggests writing up a list of your favorite things from the very specific (sassy old people who may be wiser than you might think) to the more general (love triangles,...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 29, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I know some people can write no matter what is going on around them, but I like a little music when I’m writing. It blocks out outside sounds and helps me focus on what I am doing. Some people can listen to normal pop radio while they write but my number one...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 29, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#10 Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. I used to take months off from writing and, when I started again, it took me forever to get started with my book again. When you write a little bit each day, even if only a few words, you are more familiar with your story...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#9 Don’t wait for the muse. The best advice I ever read was in a writing book so old that the author recommend that, if you were serious about writing, you really ought get a typewriter (no lie). The advice was that the stuff you write when you are totally...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 27, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#8 Skip around. If the part that you are writing is really hard or really boring, skip it! You have my permission to jump ahead to that cool fight scene that you are dying to write. Getting the book done is the point and writing it in order is not necessarily the way...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 26, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#7 Try to finish the book, not just the contest. I failed miserably at this last year and am still kicking myself. November is this crazy creative storm where you have lots of inspiration, support and inspiration. You’d be stupid to not take advantage of that...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
