by Hillary DePiano | Jan 8, 2015 | Asplode, Mistress Novel, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, The Muppet Play, Wife Novel, Word Count Updates and Writing Goals
I have created a very simple and very effective writing motivator. It’s a spreadsheet in which I’ve listed every one of my works in progress. This ranges from finished and published works to ideas I’ve only just started to jot down notes for....
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 11, 2014 | Asplode, Mistress Novel, The Fourth Orange
For most of my life, I worked on the project affectionately known as Wife Novel. I have rewritten it close to two dozen times completely from scratch and it still isn’t something I’d like to show anyone yet. But I bring it up because, I was determined to...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 2, 2012 | Asplode, My Writing
I’ve mentioned the project affectionately called Asplode many times now but I’ve never really told you anything about it. In fact, the #1 most asked question I got throughout both this and last year’s NaNoWriMo was, “No, seriously, what’s...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 1, 2012 | Asplode, Mistress Novel, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, The Muppet Play, TheLibrary, Wife Novel
Last year, I took an in depth look into my writing habits (see Looking back on past writing goals and tweaking them for the future) and, without repeating myself, I think my tweaks were good. I passed 400,000 words for the year late on 12/30 which was later than...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 1, 2011 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Asplode, My Writing, Word Count Updates and Writing Goals
“I can’t wait to not be writing this book anymore.” -Me, to my husband yesterday I spent so much time this month being a good little ML and writing articles about NaNoWriMo that I didn’t actually write a single post about my own personal NaNo...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 7, 2011 | Asplode, External Stimuli, My Writing, Personally...
So, for posterity, we had a freakish out of season snowstorm on October 29th. Because there were still leaves on the trees, the snow pulled down many, many branches and whole trees. If you aren’t in the area, it’s really hard to explain just how massive...
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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