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Daily Kanban for Writers: Managing Big Picture projects, tasks and works in progress day to day

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Mar 29, 2019 in Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration | 0 comments

This post is a sequel to my original post about Kanban for writers so you may want to start there. But, if not, here’s a quick recap: What is Kanban? Kanban is a project management system that started in manufacturing in which projects are visualized by easily movable cards organized by columns. The idea is to limit the number of projects in progress...

Review: Can 4TheWords, the fantasy game for writers, be used for editing and other off-site writing?

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Mar 22, 2019 in Evergreen, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration | 0 comments

4TheWords review in a hurry: While sometimes buggy (as you’d expect from a work in progress), it’s well worth the occasional quirk for this fun and addictive game that motivates you to write more exactly as advertised! And while the site isn’t specifically built for editing or off-site writing, there’s a couple of easy ways to make...

The Love of Three Oranges changes lives (ok, fine, maybe just one life)

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Feb 27, 2019 in Playwriting, The Love of Three Oranges | 0 comments

Did you see this awesome profile of J’Kalein Madison, a young actor making a splash in the local theatre scene in Waterloo, Iowa? What’s particularly cool is that Madison is a graduate of Waterloo West High School and had this to say about his theatre experience there: Madison originally planned to study law. That changed in his junior year when he...

LitBit: Can fitness trackers mean more sleep, hydration and physical exercise for writers?

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Feb 12, 2019 in Evergreen, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration | 0 comments

Fitbit for Writers Can fitness trackers mean more physical exercise for writers? Can having a little gadget strapped to our wrists really make us take better care of ourselves? I decided to try it out for myself. Writing is a very sedentary act. It involves sitting, often for very long periods of time, while we type until we damage our joints. In fact, one...

Writing: it’s that easy, it’s that hard

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Jan 28, 2019 in Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration | 0 comments

Every few months I’ll be reading something and I’ll have this full stop epiphany moment where I’ll say to myself… Somebody just made this up and wrote it down. And I almost feel a bit betrayed for a second and then I immediately think… I could just make up any old random thing and write it down. This happens about an equal...

Hair of the Dog Post-NaNoWriMo Writing Challenge

Posted by Hillary DePiano on Dec 6, 2018 in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration | 0 comments

You know what the very best cure for a NaNoWriMo hangover is? Hair of the dog! Just keep on writing! But sometimes that’s not always so easy, especially if you’re feeling a bit burned out and missing all the motivation and fun of the big NaNoWriMo event. My Wrimos were lamenting this very thing and wishing they had just a little bit more of a...