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 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 | Mar 29, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre, Writing Advice and Resources
David Mamet, award winning playwright of plays like Glengarry Glen Ross knows a thing or two about writing. He also isn’t afraid to tell it to you straight with some colorful language. As a producer of the TV show, The Unit, Mamet offered the following advice to...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 24, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre, Writing Advice and Resources
Script Frenzy is coming up (the challenge to write a 30 day script in the month of April from the makers of NaNoWriMo) and you are thinking about writing a Stage Play. Whether you are a frequent playwright or stage performer or someone who doesn’t know when to...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 29, 2009 | Announcements, In Their Words, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources
Last year, leading up to NaNoWriMo, I did a series of posts covering what I learned about writing from doing the contest the year prior. Here is a reprint of that entire series all as a single post. What I learned about writing from NaNoWriMo . . . If you have never...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2009 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Writing Advice and Resources
So my cousin is signed up for her very first NaNoWriMo this year. She is freaking out about it and ready to quite before we’ve even begun. She’s worried that she doesn’t know what she is going to write about. She’s worried she’s not a...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
