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Caught back up and past 115k words!

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 20, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...

I’m too tired to give you a real post but I figured I should mark this momentous word count with a potato. I want you all to know that, as of a week ago I was hugely, massively behind. I have edited and written so much in the last few days you guys would be...

I’m having an easy & free to enter Twitter contest!

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 19, 2010 | Announcements

Hello dear readers, I know that not all of you are on Twitter but, if you are, I invite you to enter my little contest. It is, of course, free to enter and actually rather simple and you have the chance to win a really cute Twitter Fail Whale T-shirt. All entries must...

The Love of Three Oranges has its New Mexico premiere this week

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 9, 2010 | Announcements, Uncategorized

If you’re going to be in Sante Fe, New Mexico this week, my play The Love of Three Oranges is running there from August 12th through 15th. Details can be found here. This is actually the first ever performance in New Mexico so it’s extra cool!I was...

An update on my writing goals

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 8, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...

Sometimes you have a good night and you get a bunch of writing done and you decide that’s enough for tonight and go to hang out with your husband… and he’s in the middle of taking apart a laptop and the pile of wire and bolts on his lap indicates...

Writing a book is like playing a very long game of Simon that you have to keep pausing

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 5, 2010 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

It’s that time again. Time for Hillary to make a really long, convoluted metaphor. Remember Simon, the Simon Says type memory game with the light up colors from Milton Bradley? Here’s a visual aide from our dear friend eBay in the event you don’t...

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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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