by Hillary DePiano | Nov 3, 2019 | Evergreen, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Once you’ve given yourself permission to write, you’ll realize that’s not enough. Because it’s one thing to say, “Yes, I will write!” and another to do it. You’ve already got a whole life crammed into 24 hours a day, and there...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 2, 2019 | Evergreen, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
“It sounds amazing in my head but when I write it down, it’s terrible!” Does this sound familiar? You’ve got this fantastic scene in mind, the whole thing is just RIGHT THERE fully formed in your head, and all you need to do is write it down!...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 1, 2019 | Evergreen, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
It starts somehow Sometimes you sit down, butt in chair, just like you’re supposed it and… you’ve got nothing. Or you’ve got something, but it’s stuck in your head, and you can’t seem to get any of the words down the page. And all the...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2019 | Evergreen, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Do you consider yourself a writer? Do you feel comfortable calling yourself one now? One of the most common mental hang-ups I’ve seen in beginning writers is this reluctance to call themselves a writer… “yet.” There’s always some...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 29, 2019 | National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’m participating in NaNoWriMo this year! NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month and it’s a fun and frantic challenge to write at least 50,000 words in the month of November with the aim of completing the first draft of a whole book by the end...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2019 | National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
Download Printable PDF You ever see one of those really pretty bullet journal pages and wish you had something like that for tracking your NaNoWriMo progress but have absolutely no artistic ability? I was having that very feeling when I decided to make this cool...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
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