Author. Playwright. Speaker.
Hillary DePiano
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction author best known for fantastically funny fairy tales, surprisingly sweet slapstick and unrelentingly upbeat writing advice.
by Hillary DePiano
Building a Writing Life
start a writing habit, find time to write, discover your process and commit to your writing dreams
Want to write but no idea where to begin? Building a Writing Life is the beginner writer’s guide you’ve been looking for!
Award Winning Playwright
Plays for All Ages
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Working with your weirdness
One of the reasons I'm such a big fan of keeping records and analyzing how you work is you realize two things. The first is that we've all got our little quirks and you'll almost immediately start to recognize patterns that amount to Your Individual Weirdness. Stuff...
In which I’m on Bluesky now!
So, um, yeah. Crazy times we're having, no? Social media as we know it is imploding. There's a boycott and mass exodus going on with all the biggies (Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok and Instagram) hemorrhaging users as people delete their accounts. I've never seen...
Making the most out of your online writing workshop
I take a lot of writing workshops. Why? Well, because I think you can never really learn enough about writing craft and sometimes having a fresh perspective on content you may have learned before can help you understand it better. I also like having an excuse to...
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