by Hillary DePiano | Apr 29, 2010 | Playwriting and Theatre
If you are considering becoming a playwright or maybe just thinking about what it would take to publish your Screnzy creation, working playwright Adam Szymkowicz has some great advice. Some of it may seem like tough love but it gives you a great overview of the...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 26, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
There are still 5 days left in Script Frenzy but not for me, man, because I finished yesterday. I didn’t set out to win. I had worked all night Friday and Saturday was a busy day so I was determined to do nothing but sit on my butt all day Sunday but then I...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 26, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
If you are new to Screnzy, you may not realize that verifying yourself as a winner isn’t as simple as just changing your word count to over 100 pages in the little update window. While your bar will change colors automatically when you pass 100 words, you...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 21, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
So we already talked about the One Act that represented the first 11 pages of my Screnzy 100. But what is the bulk of my page count about.Script #2: The Muppet PlayWhen I was in college, a year after I wrote The Author, I started another novella. I was going along...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 19, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
I promised to tell you what I was writing for Screnzy before the month began and then said nothing about it for many days. Sorry about that! But, at long last, I fulfill my promise. I decided to write two scripts for Script Frenzy this year. Let’s talk about the...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
