by Hillary DePiano | Jan 20, 2015 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, Personally...
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” -Albert Einstein We need to talk about this quote. By all accounts, Einstein was a smart dude (so much so that his name has...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 15, 2015 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
My brain works in mysterious, often not particularly mainstream, ways. Every year, with NaNoWriMo, I sit down with the other writers and, when someone inevitably asks me what I’m writing, I get a response best described as, “Haha, very funny. What are you...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 13, 2015 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I have a confession and, to be frank, I’m a little ashamed to admit it. But If I’m going to be fair to the realization I had about the value of personal posts and how helpful it can be to see other writers struggle and be real, I think I have to share it....
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 8, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I have created a very simple and very effective writing motivator. It’s a spreadsheet in which I’ve listed every one of my works in progress. This ranges from finished and published works to ideas I’ve only just started to jot down notes for....
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 6, 2015 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
It’s been a little over a month since NaNoWriMo ended and we all parted ways for the holidays. Now that you’ve had the time to recover from your November writing hangover, you’re probably wondering… What do I do now with that novel I wrote for...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
