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...
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 1, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I went into Camp NaNoWriMo’s July session with low expectations. My only word count goal was to try to hit 50,000 words as that would make it my highest word count month for this laid back, low goal year and be good practice for NaNoWriMo proper. As for what I...
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 8, 2018 | Announcements
If you noticed the site being a bit wonky and a lot, um, down the last week, that’s because I finally switched web hosts, a thing I have been meaning to do for over a decade. I had been with GoDaddy in one form or another since 2005 and while there were things I...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
