by Hillary DePiano | Jan 13, 2012 | Living the Writing Life, Uncategorized
Over the summer, I took a playwriting class. One week, for our assignment, I handed in a scene from The Muppet Play which happens to take place in a subway car. The instructor praised this scene as being an unusual setting, one you didn’t often see in plays,...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
I covered my picks for monologues out of The Love of Three Oranges in this post so I thought it would be a good idea to do the same for my newest play. If you’re a young woman looking for a dramatic monologue, I’d suggest checking out Daddy Issues where...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s coming up on that time of year again. You need a scene for you and  your partner to do for your acting class final project. Or you really want to wow them in competition this year but you want something that hasn’t been done a billion times before....
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 5, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I promised everyone in my NaNoWriMo area that I’d take requests if there was a topic they wanted a blog post about. So, one intrepid Wrimo asked: Adjusting to life after NaNo is HARD. I’ll have to remember this icky feeling I’ve had all December for...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 29, 2011 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
You’ve just finished a novel. Maybe you wrote it as part of November’s National Novel Writing Month. Either way, you’ve got this first draft happily sitting there and you’re wondering… what happens next? First, you let it sit. Then you go...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
