by Hillary DePiano | Oct 25, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#6 Do tell people that you are doing NaNoWriMo. There are two great motivators in play when you tell/brag about doing NaNoWriMo. The first is that you will have cheerleaders to root you on. My husband and friends Katie and Grace get huge gold stars for last year for...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 24, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#5 Don’t get discouraged by other people’s word counts. Some people like to look at where other people are in comparison to them. I like to look at friends because then it’s personal and I can be like, Bob has 10,000 words more than me? The hell he...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 23, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#4 Save the pep talks. One of the best things about NaNo is the pep talks. They get best selling authors and NaNo alumni to write up inspirational letters to make you want to keep working on your books and email them to you. They are really well written and a huge...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 22, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#3 Get ahead early. There are two reasons to get ahead on your word count and stock pile a lot of extra words in the beginning. The first is that things come up and you may need these words to make up for days you have to take off later on. Crisis happen unannounced...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 21, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
#2 Don’t bother with naming characters, places or anything for that matter. I used to waste so much time looking a baby name site trying to find character names, especially because I wanted them to mean something. Nothing sped up my writing faster than when I...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 20, 2008 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources
We are only a few days away from the start of National Novel Writing Month and I wanted to start a countdown on this site by posting one of the lessons I learned from about writing from NaNoWriMo every day until November 1st. If you have never done (or won) NaNo...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
