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What I’m writing for Camp NaNoWriMo’s 2018 July Session

What I’m writing for Camp NaNoWriMo’s 2018 July Session

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 30, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

You know what the problem is with becoming organized and efficient? I really miss being able to write about whatever random thing I felt like it. Sure, I wasn’t getting anything accomplished that way and I wasn’t moving towards my goals effectively in a...
Q2 Spring 2018: Planting the seeds for future growth

Q2 Spring 2018: Planting the seeds for future growth

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 15, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing

Spring took its sweet time getting here but when it finally did battle its way past all the snow it was nice… for the few days it was here before giving way to the sweltering hot summer-like temperatures… before it went back to a little chilly and now...
Q1 2018: Winter Writing Wrap-up

Q1 2018: Winter Writing Wrap-up

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 15, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

This year, I decided to start doing my writing debriefs quarterly. Partly because I just don’t have time anymore to take the incoherent screeds from my private writing journal and make them pretty enough to post every month, partly because it better reflects the...

I’m in the market for a new desk lamp. Preferable one that doesn’t randomly burst into flame.

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 12, 2018 | External Stimuli, Personally...

I’ve been using the same desk lamp since middle school. It’s the world’s most generic black desk lamp with little cubbies on the bottom for paper clips and mouse skulls or whatever people keep in there. I’ve used it this long because it’s...
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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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.

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