by Hillary DePiano | Oct 27, 2015 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Luck has absolutely nothing to do with NaNoWriMo. Let me explain in this video pep talk adapted from this popular post from years...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 23, 2015 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I adapted one of my most popular NaNoWriMo pep talks into a video. Going to be doing that with several bits of old content in the near future since it just makes sense! Here is is...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 27, 2015 | Announcements, Evergreen, My Writing, Playwriting and Theatre
The end of summer is coming up and teachers other educators are looking for plays to do in the coming school year. Many of my plays are school friendly, The Love of Three Oranges is even a bestseller for high school theatre, so here’s a quick overview of...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 25, 2015 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
Sometimes a coincidence so weird happens, you just gotta share it. As you know, I’m adapting an old collection of obscure Italian fairy tales called the Pentamerone into several plays. Well, as part of that process, I wanted to find out the name of some other...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 23, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 16, 2015 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
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...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
