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The Love of Three Oranges has its New Mexico premiere this week

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 9, 2010 | Announcements, Uncategorized

If you’re going to be in Sante Fe, New Mexico this week, my play The Love of Three Oranges is running there from August 12th through 15th. Details can be found here. This is actually the first ever performance in New Mexico so it’s extra cool!I was...

The Love of Three Oranges opera & my play are both based on the commedia scenerio of the same name

by Hillary DePiano | Apr 15, 2010 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

I’m having bad luck with media coverage lately, have you noticed?So tonight, The Love of Three Oranges opens in Indiana and if you are anywhere near the area of the Avon High School Performing Arts Center, you may want to check it out. I know the cast and crew...

my favorite quote about revising your writing

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 11, 2010 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

(I’ve posted this before but it bears repeating.)On good days, everything goes right and I have the whole script executed from start to finish within four or five hours. On bad days I write the whole script in four or five hours, realise that it’s useless,...

Finish the book. Then worry about everything else. Seriously!

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2010 | Announcements, Evergreen, In Their Words, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

I wanted to take a moment to highlight this fantastic tweet from Anita Doreen Diggs. You can follow her on Twitter here @AnitaDiggs Finish your proposal (nonfiction) or manuscript (fiction) before worrying about agents, Kindles, e-books, the book tour, etc. There is...

3 (Terrible) NaNoWriMo Limericks (Let’s hear yours!)

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 10, 2009 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Now, for your enjoyment, here are three (terrible) NaNoWriMo limericks. ~ An aspiring writer albino Decided to try NaNoWriMo The fellow got a bit crazed A whole book in 30 days? Now he lives on the streets as white wine-o ~ One otherwise common November A respectable...

5 Tips for using Twitter during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 6, 2009 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Twitter can be a real distraction and you can find yourself wasting a lot of time browsing tweets when you could be writing. But before you get ready to cut Twitter out of your life for a full month, let’s go over some of the ways that Twitter can be a helpful...
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