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by Hillary DePiano | Sep 13, 2013 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Me: This book is depressing me. Long Suffering Husband: What’s it about? Me: It’s not what it’s about that’s the problem. It’s how well it’s written. I’ve heard people talk about getting intimidated by really good writing but...
Celebrating over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges

Celebrating over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 3, 2013 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

People often ask how different writing prose is from stage plays and, to me, the biggest difference is what happens once they are finished. Whenever you finish any writing and publish it, it goes out into the world without you and that’s always a strange...
Polar Twilight featured for Middle School, High School and Community theaters in Playscripts 2013-2014 Play Catalog

Polar Twilight featured for Middle School, High School and Community theaters in Playscripts 2013-2014 Play Catalog

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 9, 2013 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

The 2013-2014 Playscripts Catalog will be coming to a subscriber’s mailbox near you soon but, in the meantime, you can grab an electronic copy right now here. Though Polar Twilight was actually released before the 2012-2013 catalog was released, it was out just...

How I Binge Blog: one for now, one for the can (my rainy day queue of stockpiled posts)

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 13, 2013 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...

People always ask me how I find time to blog so regularly in between everything else I do and I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t blog regularly at all. I blog very sporadically and I just make my various blogs seem like they have a regular posting...
The Love of Three Oranges: just your typical “fairy tale on crack”

The Love of Three Oranges: just your typical “fairy tale on crack”

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 8, 2013 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized

I don’t share every review of The Love of Three Oranges because there are just too many of them but, every now and then, one catches my eye and this one by Margaret McNamara may be my new favorite. It’s just peppered with jokes and references from the show...
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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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