Popping in with a quick bit of news about a brand new release! Just released from YouthPLAYS, an anthology of plays originally written for streaming which includes one of my favorite plays I've ever written, Nana's Happy Happy Good News Only Birthday Video Chat. The...
Working with your weirdness
One of the reasons I'm such a big fan of keeping records and analyzing how you work is you realize two things. The first is that we've all got our little quirks and you'll almost immediately start to recognize patterns that amount to Your Individual Weirdness. Stuff...
In which I’m on Bluesky now!
So, um, yeah. Crazy times we're having, no? Social media as we know it is imploding. There's a boycott and mass exodus going on with all the biggies (Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok and Instagram) hemorrhaging users as people delete their accounts. I've never seen...
Making the most out of your online writing workshop
I take a lot of writing workshops. Why? Well, because I think you can never really learn enough about writing craft and sometimes having a fresh perspective on content you may have learned before can help you understand it better. I also like having an excuse to...
Coming Soon: Non-fiction and Freelance Writing Workshop at SavvyAuthors
Heads up that I have an online writing workshop coming up. This class will be entirely online so you can work through it at your own pace from the comfort of anywhere! Non-Fiction, Freelance, Blogging and other ways to get started with writing the real world March 3,...
Coming soon: Revitalize Your Author Platform Workshop at RWO
Heads up that I have an online writing workshop coming up. This class will be entirely online so you can work through it at your own pace from the comfort of anywhere! Revitalize Your Author Platform: Making the most out of your author website, blog, mailing list,...
Two new plays and a chance to win a custom monologue written by Hillary DePiano
2024 was a busy year for me and I finished two brand new plays that I feel confident saying are some of my best work. My mailing list got a sneak peek at these plays last summer, but I'm finally making them available to everyone with a special contest to help me get...
Coming soon: Editing and Publishing Workshop at SavvyAuthors
Heads up that I have an online writing workshop coming up. This class will be entirely online so you can work through it at your own pace from the comfort of anywhere! Now What? Taking Your New Novel through Editing, Publication and Beyond January 13, 2025 - January...
End of Year Odds ‘n Ends
The relentless passage of time bringing anyone else down? Somehow, we have zoomed to the end of another year, one in which I have been lax at blogging. This is partly because I have been super busy with classes and workshops and new plays that we will discuss in...
Writing Seminar: So, you want to be a writer?
This Saturday, October 12 at 1 PM, I'll be doing an Intro to writing talk at the Linden Library. To sign up or for more info, visit the event page here. Here is the flyer with more info about this event: While this is my last class of 2024, I actually have seven...
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