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TFW you won NaNoWriMo (yay!) but you haven’t actually finished your book yet (boo!)

TFW you won NaNoWriMo (yay!) but you haven’t actually finished your book yet (boo!)

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 4, 2016 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

The following is an excerpt from NaNo What Now? Finding your editing process, revising your NaNoWriMo book and building a writing career through publishing and beyond Available now in paperback and eBook. To the writer that reached their word count target but didn’t...
If you signed up for NaNoWriMo but didn’t win or reach your writing goal, this pep talk is for you

If you signed up for NaNoWriMo but didn’t win or reach your writing goal, this pep talk is for you

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 3, 2016 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

The following is an excerpt from NaNo What Now? Finding your editing process, revising your NaNoWriMo book and building a writing career through publishing and beyond Available now in paperback and eBook. To the writer that finished neither their NaNoWriMo project nor...
Positive you won’t hit your NaNoWriMo goal this year? You owe it to yourself to keep trying anyway.

Positive you won’t hit your NaNoWriMo goal this year? You owe it to yourself to keep trying anyway.

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 25, 2016 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

At the moment I’m writing this, I’m 42,488 words behind on my goal for NaNoWriMo. On my lesser goal? I’m 24,772 words behind. Yeesh. That’s a big deficit. And if I can’t hit my goal, what’s the point of writing anymore at all? It...
Want to finish your novel? When you feel like quitting, DON’T!

Want to finish your novel? When you feel like quitting, DON’T!

by Hillary DePiano | Nov 7, 2016 | Evergreen, Uncategorized

You’re working on your novel. You’re writing away and the words are flowing great and then it hits you. The doubt. You have no idea where you were going with this. The characters are all stupid. What made you think you could pull this off? You’re...
How I Wrote The Green Bird (full length stage play adaptation & one act version)

How I Wrote The Green Bird (full length stage play adaptation & one act version)

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 20, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

Novelists have been doing this sort of post for a while, an all-in-one debrief on exactly how they wrote one of their books day by day (here’s one example and another but there are many out there), but it hasn’t caught on yet in the playwriting community....
Tips for performing a fantasy play and making magic & special effects on a school budget

Tips for performing a fantasy play and making magic & special effects on a school budget

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 30, 2016 | Evergreen, Me, but Elsewhere, My Writing, Uncategorized

I did a guest post for the Playscripts blog on Friday called Frugal Fantasy: Making Magic on a Less Than Fantastical Budget filled with tips for making magical effects happen on the stage even if you’re working on a school or community theatre budget. It’s...
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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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