Hey! Guess what? I have a new book coming out this October! It’s called Building a Writing Life, after the talk I’ve been doing for the last few years, and it’s all about getting started as a writer and building up a writing habit. It’s the first book in my How to Start Writing Series for Writing Beginners and I know you’re...
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Hey, you! Yeah, you, reading this right now. I need your help. You’re here because you dig what I’ve got to say and I really freaking appreciate that. And I’d like to enter into a little mutually beneficial arrangement where you help me out a bit and I give you advanced copies of my latest writing books and other exclusive goodies in...
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I did drop off the face of the earth for a bit there, didn’t I? In the past, I would write, edit and format my blog posts all in a single evening. Because I rarely have a chunk of time long enough to do that anymore, I thought I’d break it up this year. Write, edit, and format separately. That way I could, in theory, break each post up and work...
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There’s a new NaNoWriMo guide coming out on August 27th specifically geared towards young writers. It’s called Brave the Page by Rebecca Stern and National Novel Writing Month Executive Director Grant Faulkner and I was lucky enough to score an advanced copy. Regular readers know that I am a great lover of National Novel Writing Month aka...
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Here’s something exciting: The Fourth Orange and Other Fairy Tales You’ve Never Even Heard Of is finally ready to share with the world! This play has been 6 years in the making* and is without a doubt the most complicated thing I have ever attempted to write** but, dang, it was worth it. How I love this weird and wild little piece of theatre!...
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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.
One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.
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Random plot generators for writer's block (& a laugh)
In which I give you permission to start your NaNoWriMo novel early...
50,000 words of Lorem Ipsum for copy and paste NaNoWriMo winner verification
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