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Happy New Year! Quotes about New Year’s Eve from New Year’s Thieve

Happy New Year! Quotes about New Year’s Eve from New Year’s Thieve

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 30, 2014 | External Stimuli, In Their Words, Uncategorized

New Year’s Thieve is currently free on Amazon until January 1st, 2015 and since this is the very last time I’ll be able to offer the eBook for free, I’m trying to get it in front of as many eyeballs as possible. To that end, I’ve taken some of...
From the Mailbag: What’s the relationship between King Silvio and Pantalone in The Love of Three Oranges?

From the Mailbag: What’s the relationship between King Silvio and Pantalone in The Love of Three Oranges?

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 15, 2014 | Uncategorized

Hello, I am directing your wonderful play, The Love of Three Oranges. We have just begun rehearsals and are enjoying the process greatly. I want to ask you about the relationship between Pantalone and the King. What character in our world would you liken Pantalone...
The Love of Three Oranges: Original Recipe and new Citrus Blast (which is what I’m mentally calling the one-act version)

The Love of Three Oranges: Original Recipe and new Citrus Blast (which is what I’m mentally calling the one-act version)

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 8, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized

Aw, just look at them. They look so cute together. I had the two of them sitting on my desk and I just had to snap a picture.  It’s crazy. The one-act version went from “Eh, I’ll try it.” to published in less than a year. It was December of...
On the unlikely hero of the author blog: the personal post

On the unlikely hero of the author blog: the personal post

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 1, 2014 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally..., Uncategorized

I am a human being. Flawed. Flailing. Far from polished. For the longest time, I’ve been trying to limit the number of personal posts I put on this blog. Things like word count updates, posts where I ramble about my various works in progress, or those posts...
NaNoWriMo Week 4: “I’m sick of sittin’ ’round here trying to write this book.”  -Bruce Springsteen

NaNoWriMo Week 4: “I’m sick of sittin’ ’round here trying to write this book.” -Bruce Springsteen

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 26, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

“Stop looking at the mountain of words you’ve yet to write. You climb even the steepest path one step at a time and that’s how you’re going to reach your goal: word by word.” -Hillary DePiano That quote above is from a pep talk I did for Camp...
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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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