by Hillary DePiano | Jun 5, 2017 | External Stimuli, Uncategorized
Having bid our official farewell to Old House (as my 4 year old calls it), it’s time to talk a bit about New House. To start with, it’s lovely and has much to recommend it, though there are also a fair amount of headaches we knew were coming because...
by Hillary DePiano | May 31, 2017 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’ve tried to write this post a dozen times already and gotten too annoyed to continue every time. Why? Pull up a chair, I’ll try to explain without rage-quitting this time. You know I strive for complete transparency in my writing process so join me for a...
by Hillary DePiano | May 29, 2017 | External Stimuli
When my husband and I were first looking for our first house, we were dead set against townhouses. Every house looking the same, no real yards, no thank you. Then we found this magic townhouse on a dead end and changed our minds. Because while it looked like a...
by Hillary DePiano | May 5, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Multiple people told me they assumed I’d be taking the April session of Camp NaNoWriMo off this year because of the new baby and I was like, “Ha! Have you met me?” It would have been sensible and healthy to take Camp NaNoWriMo off after just having a...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 30, 2017 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
Despite the fact that life with a new baby is chaos and we’ve got the multipliers of a preschooler and having just moved to monkey wrench the whole dealie, I feel like I’m doing much better than I did after my first daughter was born. Not just from a...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
