by Hillary DePiano | Mar 29, 2010 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre, Writing Advice and Resources
David Mamet, award winning playwright of plays like Glengarry Glen Ross knows a thing or two about writing. He also isn’t afraid to tell it to you straight with some colorful language. As a producer of the TV show, The Unit, Mamet offered the following advice to...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 24, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre, Writing Advice and Resources
Script Frenzy is coming up (the challenge to write a 30 day script in the month of April from the makers of NaNoWriMo) and you are thinking about writing a Stage Play. Whether you are a frequent playwright or stage performer or someone who doesn’t know when to...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 23, 2010 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
Just wanted to point out this review of The Love of Three Oranges as written by the sister of a cast member. The author wrote lots of very nice things about the play in general and I thank her for it!You can read the review here.
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 11, 2010 | My Writing, Uncategorized
The Globe Gazette did a nice little piece on Clear Lake High School’s production of The Love of Three Oranges last weekend which you can read here. I would have happily posted it before their production but, sadly, Google Alerts don’t do you a lot of good...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 11, 2010 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
(I’ve posted this before but it bears repeating.)On good days, everything goes right and I have the whole script executed from start to finish within four or five hours. On bad days I write the whole script in four or five hours, realise that it’s useless,...