by Hillary DePiano | Feb 27, 2012 | External Stimuli, Personally...
I was on vacation the week of February 13th. It was lovely. After a very busy holiday season and depressingly just as busy January, it was a very nice little break. I came home feeling ready to work and with a plan for a productive rest of the month. Sadly, it was not...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 24, 2012 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
When Playscripts bought The Love of Three Oranges, I only had about a week to do the revisions for them to ready it for publication (because I was on vacation for the rest of the time they would have given me) and, though I was terrified I wouldn’t get it done...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 21, 2012 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Skyline High School is performing The Love of Three Oranges this upcoming weekend. They created a website specifically for their production which you can check out here. But I wanted to particularly highlight this line from their site: Because of the impending doom of...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
Many years ago, a professor told me that The Author was literary fiction and I’ve stubbornly been categorizing it as that even as I’ve become increasingly unsure that’s where it belongs. What genre the novella is and what Amazon category it belongs...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 16, 2012 | External Stimuli, Personally...
Two of my best friends just had babies very close together. I was at the store looking for cards. There was someone next to me and, without looking, I assumed it was my husband who had previously been standing there. So I say, “The baby girl cards are fine but...