by Hillary DePiano | Mar 19, 2012 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’m talking Wife Novel out with Long Suffering Husband: Me: I’m just not sure if that motivation makes sense anymore. LSH: It does, because of [describes a scene]. Me: No, that scene isn’t in the book anymore. LSH: OK, but there’s still...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 17, 2012 | External Stimuli, Personally...
I’m walking around the house when I drop the book I’ve been reading. It falls, spine first, and falls open. I lean down to pick it up and my eyes accidentally fall on some words at random. I don’t consciously try to read them but I do anyway and it...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 14, 2012 | Announcements, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
I know, I know. So many blog posts this week. I’m trying to get all my Screnzy posts up early so that they get shared and retweeted both before and during Script Frenzy. There is a method to my madness, I swear. Anyway, I wanted to let you know about a talk...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 13, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
Do you guys smell that? It smells like… coffee… unwashed writers and… popcorn? This can only mean one thing! Script Frenzy is coming. But my enthusiastic countdown to Screnzy excitement is tempered by this sad fact: The Office of Letters and Light...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 12, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
There’s something familiar about prose. We’ve all read at least a book or two in our lives and we understand generally how words flow together in a story. There’s also something comfortingly self-contained about writing a book or story. We write it...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
