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From the mailbag: When does your play need an editor & when should you copyright?

From the mailbag: When does your play need an editor & when should you copyright?

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 20, 2018 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

Hi Hillary, I’m an author and I’ve worked with editors/publishers with my book. I understand that process but as a new playwright, I’m not sure how to go about getting my 3 plays critiqued, edited and proofread. I’m an indie author and self...
Break into YA writing by starting with the stage before the page

Break into YA writing by starting with the stage before the page

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 13, 2018 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

If you’re a YA writer having trouble breaking in, you might be better off getting started with writing YA plays first. I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for ages but then this question came in from the mailbag which gave me the perfect...
Kanban for writers: organize book releases, revisions & more with project management boards

Kanban for writers: organize book releases, revisions & more with project management boards

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 6, 2018 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources

Kanban for Writers My writing life is a many headed beast. I write fiction, non-fiction, freelance articles, stage plays and more under a variety of pen names. I’m always looking for better ways to prioritize and manage all these different project so I’m...
A Writer’s Guide to Resistance: how to keep writing in a world gone mad

A Writer’s Guide to Resistance: how to keep writing in a world gone mad

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 30, 2018 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

No, it’s not just you. It is really freaking hard to write right now. The world has gone mad, everything is terrible and all that continuous fear and rage and stress makes it really hard to focus on anything, much less fiction. Creatives, like writers, are...
Lit on Fire, a comic anthology of school reading list parodies, available now from YouthPLAYS

Lit on Fire, a comic anthology of school reading list parodies, available now from YouthPLAYS

by Hillary DePiano | Feb 27, 2018 | Announcements

Remember all those annoying books they made you read in high school? Well, they’re getting the roast they deserve in this new collection from YouthPLAYS called Lit on Fire! Full of funny shorts for classrooms, competitions and forensics, the plays can also be...
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