As 2017 draws to a close, let’s take a look at how my year in writing went. I’m going to try to keep this short. I’ll fail, mind you, but that effort surely counts for something, no? For more details on any of this, you can see my whole writing year month by month here. (Keep in mind that my Writing Year starts in December, ends in...
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2016 was a crap sandwich for just about everyone and I’m no exception. It was a crazy stressful year full of unexpected changes and pressures and so much of the future is still uncertain. But while 2016 felt like a big fat fail as I was living it, it actually turned out to be a pretty darn good year for writing, oddly enough. Let’s take a...
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Here’s what October 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 662,661/600,000 words (110%) Monthly Goal Only goal this month was to get ready for NaNoWriMo which wasn’t numerically based. Total Words Written 50,370 words Average Words Per Day 1,625 words Things completed: All the NaNoWriMo ML stuff! Other Works Actively in Progress this Month: The MG...
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Where did the last month of my life go? Did one of you take it? If you did, I won’t even be mad, just give it back because I am seriously not ready for it to be October already. Well, jeez, I guess this is happening so we might as well get down to it… (If any of you were wondering what level of dork I am, I made all these graphics in one day...
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Reader, I am frustrated. It’s about the MG book I’ve been working on for a while now that is based on two of my plays. “A while” here meaning a period of time impossible to properly quantify as I originally spent a year writing what I realized was actually Book 2 before I got the story started in the right place. The problem is the...
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I think this might be the first time I’ve written my writing recap after the month has already ended. Here’s what August 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 556,549/600,000 words (93%) Monthly Goal My goal was to take August off. This meant, I could write if I felt like it but didn’t have to. Total Words Written 47,400 words I know, so...
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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.
One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.
Random plot generators for writer’s block (& a laugh)
50,000 words of Lorem Ipsum for copy and paste NaNoWriMo winner verification
Who said “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain” ?
On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post
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