by Hillary DePiano | Sep 5, 2017 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
At the start of the summer, the 4 year old and I planted a whole row of sunflower seeds. We tended them with love and the plants were a couple of inches tall … when the guys that do our lawn decided to bathe the entire row in weed killer. (They are very nice...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 23, 2017 | Announcements, Evergreen
Especially this time of year with schools and community theatres setting up their seasons, planning for the school year ahead or looking for competition friendly pieces, I get a lot of emails from groups who need a recommendation for which play of mine best fits their...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 10, 2017 | Evergreen, Playwriting and Theatre
I covered this already in my Self-Publishing a Stage Play series in another post but this is far and away the most frequently asked question on this series so let’s have another go at it, shall we? “What if someone tries to perform my play without...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 31, 2017 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
In all the moving / having a baby madness of the last year, I finished a play but forgot to actually tell anyone about it for almost an entire year! (Like, seriously 11 months almost to the day as I finished it on August 29th, 2016.) This play is The Myrtle, the fairy...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 25, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
You can always tell when I’m catching up on my inbox when I do a lot of mailbag posts in a row. Relatedly, here’s another one: We met last year during NaNoWriMo (October 2016) in preparation for our arduous month ahead. Thanks for all the great info. I...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
