by Hillary DePiano | Mar 21, 2025 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, Personally...
One of the reasons I’m such a big fan of keeping records and analyzing how you work is you realize two things. The first is that we’ve all got our little quirks and you’ll almost immediately start to recognize patterns that amount to Your Individual...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 1, 2025 | Classes and Workshops, Evergreen
I take a lot of writing workshops. Why? Well, because I think you can never really learn enough about writing craft and sometimes having a fresh perspective on content you may have learned before can help you understand it better. I also like having an excuse to...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 8, 2023 | 4TheWords, Classes and Workshops, Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Keeping the NaNoWriMo Spirit Going Year Round NaNoWriMo is over for another year but there is still plenty of writing still to do. To that end, here’s a list of resources that might serve you in the off-season. Of course, what you need from a post NaNoWriMo year...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 9, 2023 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’m teaching a bunch of writing classes over the course of the next year so I thought it would be helpful to start a list of the books I recommend the most often. Not just to keep them consolidated in one place, but also so I can update them as I find new ones....
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 5, 2023 | Classes and Workshops, Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
With the kids going back to school, you might be thinking of hitting the books yourself and brushing up on your writing skills. The ideal writing class would teach you important skills to help you hone your craft, inspire you to keep on writing, offer feedback and...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 7, 2020 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I know that some of you out there are as obsessive as me when it comes to trying to figure out how far along you are in National Novel Writing Month so I decided to share my personal calculator. It’s simple but powerful. This calculator will work in Open Office,...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
