Most of the time, you'll hate what you write. Your ideas are so awesome in your head but when you write them down on paper they seem like garbage. You'll get discouraged and frustrated and start to doubt yourself so I want to make sure you know ahead of time that...
You'll have to make sacrifices and prioritize your writing. This comes as a shock to many people with dreams of writing anything at all so let's just get this out there right now: Writing is work and it takes time. Maybe you have a job, kids and a variety of other...
Writing is easy. Writing is hard. You’ll hear two different voices throughout the month. "NaNoWriMo is so much fun!" say that people for whom it's going well. Meanwhile, the people who are having trouble are complaining that NaNoWriMo is stupid, impossible and way too...
You’ll probably feel a overwhelmed, especially in the beginning. After all the anticipation, the beginning of NaNoWriMo can sometimes be killer on your creativity. You’ll be staring and that blank page with this feeling that all of your ideas have completely left you...
I'm so excited. I can't wait to start my NaNoWriMo novel. I want to be writing it RIGHT NOW! Usually, when people complain about having to wait to start their NaNoWriMo novels, I point them to this post and all the reasons I recommend just going ahead and starting it...
Sometimes I make poor life decisions. Sometimes I do dumb things like stay up all night reading when I know perfectly well the baby will be up before dawn. Or I go to the bank without to bringing the check I needed to cash. Or I completely forget that my wedding...
Look what I just got in the mail! It's... not orange! I feel like that's kind of a plot twist... Anyway, now that you've seen the cover, go ahead and read all but the last few scenes of the play for free here.
I started an adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird* back in 2002 but abandoned it... only to pick the project back up again this year. There are three big reasons why I walked away and ultimately came back to this play and I'm going to devote a full blog post to...
Not to get all clickbait on you but you won't believe what just happened... You know how I told you last Friday that I sent my final edits on the one-act version of The Love of Three Oranges to Playscripts on 8/20? Check this out... Well, golly! That was fast! When...
"The most disgusting thing is chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven. Like when the chips are all warm and gooey." And as my cousin said this, she shuddered like the mere thought of it made her sick to her stomach. The rest of us were like... are you joking?...
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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