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I’m doing a NaNoPrep talk at the Maplewood Library on Monday, October 24th at 7 PM

by Hillary DePiano | Oct 23, 2016 | Announcements, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

Let’s chat NaNoWriMo! Come hang out with me in person this Monday night at 7 PM at the main branch of the Maplewood Library where I’ll be answering questions and offering tips, tricks and advice on how to get through your first novel and the NaNoWriMo...
September 2016: Setbacks and set-ups

September 2016: Setbacks and set-ups

by Hillary DePiano | Oct 4, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Where did the last month of my life go? Did one of you take it? If you did, I won’t even be mad, just give it back because I am seriously not ready for it to be October already. Well, jeez, I guess this is happening so we might as well get down to it… (If...
Masks now available for standalone licensing and purchase

Masks now available for standalone licensing and purchase

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 30, 2016 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

Exactly a month ago, I told you about my new short drama, Masks, which is part of the new anthology Bullying, INK. from YouthPlays. While you can purchase the play or license it as part of that collection, for the first time, it’s now available as a standalone...
How I Wrote The Green Bird (full length stage play adaptation & one act version)

How I Wrote The Green Bird (full length stage play adaptation & one act version)

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 20, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

Novelists have been doing this sort of post for a while, an all-in-one debrief on exactly how they wrote one of their books day by day (here’s one example and another but there are many out there), but it hasn’t caught on yet in the playwriting community....
Months of craft work & a new outline later, I’m still stuck in the exact same spot

Months of craft work & a new outline later, I’m still stuck in the exact same spot

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 18, 2016 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Reader, I am frustrated. It’s about the MG book I’ve been working on for a while now that is based on two of my plays. “A while” here meaning a period of time impossible to properly quantify as I originally spent a year writing what I realized...
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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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