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The existential typo

The existential typo

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 25, 2012 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

While I already told you about my most frequent typo when I’m writing dialog, there’s another typo that I make all the time that’s even more dangerous. Just about every time a character in one of my plays leaves the stage, I write exists instead of...
In which I confess that this summer has completely and thoroughly kicked my butt

In which I confess that this summer has completely and thoroughly kicked my butt

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 15, 2012 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...

Can you spot the moment my life went off the rails? It’s been an… interesting summer. Stressful is a grossly over-used word (especially by me… guilty!) but it’s really the only word to describe the last few months. All sorts of stuff was and is...
The Origin of Polar Twilight (aka Where did I get the idea for my newest play?)

The Origin of Polar Twilight (aka Where did I get the idea for my newest play?)

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 10, 2012 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized

After Three Oranges was published in the spring of last year, I started brainstorming ideas for other plays. Don’t get me wrong, I had three other plays in progress before the Playscripts version of Three Oranges went to print but none of them would appeal to...

A quote from The Love of Three Oranges has gone somewhat viral and I feel weird about it

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 4, 2012 | External Stimuli, In Their Words, My Writing, Personally...

There’s this weird spam-bot like Twitter account called AdvisorIsIn that just tweets the same messages over and over again (it seems like about once every two days or so it repeats its cycle). I’ve tried writing to “Eve” multiple times but it...

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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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