I recently scrapped a polished, praised "finished" draft and completely rewrote it from scratch. I found almost no articles to help with this kind of extensive rewrite despite the fact that it has to be more common than anyone would admit. Surely I am not the first...
Back in 2009, I finished the project nicknamed Mistress Novel. I rewrote and revised it until it was as good as I could make it on my own and sent it to Beta readers in April 2011. I made another round of extensive edits based on that feedback and had a "finished"...
Weak Days a comedy in one-act by Hillary DePiano 6-7 Gender Neutral roles Run Time: 40 - 45 minutes We've all got our routines. It’s comfortable, doing the same thing every day. But when something makes you stop and really look at your life, you may find yourself...
While my mail list got a sneak peek of something coming soon yesterday, it's far from the only thing in the pipeline. Here's a quick update on what I'm working on right now: I finished a new play a few weeks ago. My mailing list is getting first crack at it but I'll...
I set up a mailing list a long time ago but I've never really pushed it here on the blog for a variety of reasons not worth going into. But exciting thing are happening at Burger King, as they say (OK, fine, no one but me says that but still) and it's time to get real...
When I was at the TGIO* for my NaNoWriMo area last year, we were talking about keeping the writing going year round because a lot of my Wrimos have no problem writing 50,000 words every November but struggle to write anywhere near that the entire rest of the year...
Scratch and sniff opera: At "Love for Three Oranges" in 1998, patrons received a scratch and sniff card. During the production someone would hold up a number and audience members would scratch off the corresponding number on their card and be "rewarded" with a scent...
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” -Albert Einstein We need to talk about this quote. By all accounts, Einstein was a smart dude (so much so that his name has...
My brain works in mysterious, often not particularly mainstream, ways. Every year, with NaNoWriMo, I sit down with the other writers and, when someone inevitably asks me what I'm writing, I get a response best described as, "Haha, very funny. What are you really...
I have a confession and, to be frank, I'm a little ashamed to admit it. But If I'm going to be fair to the realization I had about the value of personal posts and how helpful it can be to see other writers struggle and be real, I think I have to share it. To start...
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