Who doesn't like free books? There's a 50-100% discount on a bunch of my books and plays going on as part of Smashwords' big sale and I realized I never publicized it over here. The sale only runs until the end of July so get over there now and take advantage before...
While my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges stayed fairly close to the original (outside of everything related to the whole Narrator/Celio thing which was all me, baby), my adaptation of The Green Bird is fairly different from Carlo Gozzi's original. While...
I am not big on online quizzes but this one happened to catch my eye and I knew I just had to take it. Â It purported to determine "What commedia dell'arte character are you?" and I took it and to the surprise of no one the result was... I mean, OF COURSE, I'm...
My adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird is done and I'm incredibly excited to share it with you. There's  a lot to debrief after this massive project but I want to get some business out of the way first. While I may someday pursue traditional publishing options,...
I've had a writing epiphany and I think this one is a game changer. Back in December, I started adapting my plays Polar Twilight and New Year's Thieve as a MG novel. The first draft came very easily and it was pretty put together and I thought I'd be able to clean it...
We're right at the mid-point of 2015 so now seems like as good a time as any for a big State of the Writer post. The halfway point of the year always sneaks up on me. I truly can't believe that it's already July! I'm going to bold what each paragraph is about so that...
Every time I talk about this one on social media, people are always saying things like, "I MUST read that!" and now's your chance because Playscripts has a special discount right now going on that only applies to holiday plays like Polar Twilight. To take advantage,...
There's something right now that you want to be doing but you can't seem to fit it into your life. Maybe it's more writing time or maybe it's something else but, whatever it is, the secret to forcing a new habit into your life is to line it up with what you're already...
One very simple writing tool I recently added to the mix was a dry erase board next to my computer monitor that's a priority list of all my projects. The board used to be a list of every project I wanted to write someday and it took me until recently to realize that...
Working on The Green Bird and my brain sidles up to me, "Forget this one, baby. I've got a better idea." "Not now. I'm finishing this first." "How about this: We write a whole play in Fakespeare!" "Go away." "OK, Plenty more where that came from. Gender flipped Peter...
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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