Polar Twilight, that little comedy of mine where Santa Claus is a vampire that sounds like it's going to be all scary and blasphemous but is actually totally cute and heartwarming, (I swear! Even my Catholic school teacher mom came around to it!), is enjoying a...
What happens when you take Jane Austen's six classic novels and mix them up with nine of the most popular genres of today? With anywhere from two to a dozen or more actors running around wildly playing all the parts? And then do the whole mess in less time than it...
If you've been waiting for the chance, to buy All The Plays by Hillary DePiano, now's your chance! Both YouthPLAYS and Playscripts, who between them have 9 of my plays available, are running holiday sales but you gotta be quick to take advantage because both expire...
At the moment I'm writing this, I'm 42,488 words behind on my goal for NaNoWriMo. On my lesser goal? I'm 24,772 words behind. Yeesh. That's a big deficit. And if I can't hit my goal, what's the point of writing anymore at all? It would be much nicer to just take the...
I had a pep talk all ready for this week that was your standard NaNoWriMo stuff but I scrapped it because we've had anything but a standard NaNoWriMo this year and it's silly to ignore the elephant in the room. (Pun intended.) How can IÂ be all "Rah rah, writing!" when...
You're working on your novel. You're writing away and the words are flowing great and then it hits you. The doubt. You have no idea where you were going with this. The characters are all stupid. What made you think you could pull this off? You're just so sick of this...
Back in the day, I used to work for one of NaNoWriMo's sponsors. We were encouraged to sign up for NaNoWriMo and try to participate so we understood what the event was about when customers came to us with questions. I dutifully signed up and joked about writing a...
Let's chat NaNoWriMo! Come hang out with me in person this Monday night at 7 PM at the main branch of the Maplewood Library where I'll be answering questions and offering tips, tricks and advice on how to get through your first novel and the NaNoWriMo challenge! Ideal...
Exactly a month ago, I told you about my new short drama, Masks, which is part of the new anthology Bullying, INK. from YouthPlays. While you can purchase the play or license it as part of that collection, for the first time, it's now available as a standalone play...
Novelists have been doing this sort of post for a while, an all-in-one debrief on exactly how they wrote one of their books day by day (here's one example and another but there are many out there), but it hasn't caught on yet in the playwriting community. It's a shame...
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