How do you prepare for a big undertaking like NaNoWriMo? You can just stumble into your novel-writing journey headfirst drunk buffalo style and hope it all works out. But you’ll have your best shot at success if you do a little preparation before the month begins. But I’m not talking about your novel itself, though your certainly welcome to...
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The 2016 election threw us all for a loop that we’re still dealing with. Shortly after the election, I saw a tweet to the effect that you’ll probably be able to tell exactly where writers were in their manuscripts when the election happened and I thought this was interesting because this absolutely happened to me during the writing of The...
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I’m kind of torn on tracking my writing goals quarterly. On one hand, grouping them by season makes sense and I like having only four updates to write and post instead of 12 like before. But the downside is that, even though I wrote myself notes, three months is too long for me to remember what the heck I was doing at the start of the quarter so I...
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What is The Tale of Tales play? Around this time last year, I announced the premiere of a brand new play, The Tale of Tales. Considering I’m in the midst of a many year project of adapting Giambattista Basile’s Tale of Tales collection in a dozen different ways, people were confused as that could be the title of a lot of different things...
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While I know a lot of you have already gone back to school, we don’t start until after Labor Day over here so my kids and I are still squeezing every last second out of summer while we have the chance. But I’ve also been burning the midnight oil (sort of literally since my working hours are 11 PM – 1 AM these days) and have a bunch of new...
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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.
Forget your novel! How to Prep Your LIFE For NaNoWriMo.
Turning what I wanted to write into what I needed to write
Q3 Summer 2018: Swim all day, write all night!
The Tale of Tales: the highly customizable, mix and match commedia style fairy tale play OF YOUR DREAMS
New plays coming soon for perusal and world premieres!
One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.
On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post
There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Random plot generators for writer's block (& a laugh)
The Love of Three Oranges: the fairy tale that became a commedia dell arte scenario that became a play
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