My brain works in mysterious, often not particularly mainstream, ways. Every year, with NaNoWriMo, I sit down with the other writers and, when someone inevitably asks me what I’m writing, I get a response best described as, “Haha, very funny. What are you really writing?” Possibly this is because I’m known for cracking wise....
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I was in a NaNoWriMo write-in last night when, suddenly, my novel ended. We were doing a word sprint and I couldn’t think of what scene came next (because, while I didn’t outline, I did formulate a list of scenes I thought might appear somewhere just to give me something to refer back to when I got off stuck). I checked my list and, huh, this...
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I don’t know how to write this blog post without sounding like a jerk but here goes. I’m ahead on NaNoWriMo. Like, really ahead. And this is going to sound like bragging but it’s really just a statement of fact: I’m ahead and I’m not even working all that hard. Every single word of that was written at a write-in, specifically...
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I’m so excited. I can’t wait to start my NaNoWriMo novel. I want to be writing it RIGHT NOW! Usually, when people complain about having to wait to start their NaNoWriMo novels, I point them to this post and all the reasons I recommend just going ahead and starting it early (which is allowed!). But this year, that’s me! I’m...
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One of the strangest pregnancy side effect is weird dreams. Like, dreams so vivid and dark that your doctor actually warns you about them ahead of time so you don’t think you’ve gone completely insane. So, like, next level weird. Yeah, that’s a thing. Anyway, when I was pregnant with my daughter back in 2012, I had many of these crazy...
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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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