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My 2011 Writing Goal

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 23, 2011 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

So, last Monday, I told you what I learned from writing goals of the past and how I was going to use this knowledge to tweak my goals in the future. Right now, I wanted to share the writing goal I created for 2011 to address and fix the issues brought up in the other...

Looking back on past writing goals and tweaking them for the future

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 17, 2011 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

I’m frequently asked how I work or how I get “so much done” (which I think is funny because I feel like I never get enough done) but I get the question enough that I feel like I should address it. A huge part of how I get anything done, especially in...

Photos of The Love of Three Oranges from Vernon Hills High School’s production

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 4, 2011 | Announcements, Uncategorized

Way back in the Fall of 2008, Vernon Hills High School had done a performance of The Love of Three Oranges which went so well they were asked to performance it in an Illinois Drama competition! One of the actors from that production was kind enough to email over some...
Writers & Publishers: How to Activate (or Deactivate) Lending on your eBooks on Amazon’s Kindle

Writers & Publishers: How to Activate (or Deactivate) Lending on your eBooks on Amazon’s Kindle

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 3, 2011 | Announcements, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Amazon recently debuted the ability for readers to lend their Kindle books with friends. I did a detailed overview of the new program here. But I thought I’d also take this opportunity to do a “just the part we authors/publishers care about” post...

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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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