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Make it easier to add a new habit by fitting it into the life you’re already living

Make it easier to add a new habit by fitting it into the life you’re already living

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...
Keep your writing on track and balance multiple projects with a simple project priority list

Keep your writing on track and balance multiple projects with a simple project priority list

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...
Write the Kitchen Sink aka don’t hold any of the good stuff back for the mythical future

Write the Kitchen Sink aka don’t hold any of the good stuff back for the mythical future

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 5, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

The most useful writing advice and I literally can’t remember where I heard it. But the idea behind it is to leave it all on the table. To put all your best stuff into this book and don’t save anything for mythical future books that may never exist. I took...
Research and rethink: the value of downtime during a massive rewrite

Research and rethink: the value of downtime during a massive rewrite

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 3, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

I took a break from rewriting my novel. I’d thought I had it after experimenting and started moving forward with my rewrite again. I actually got to that same third of the way point from the last draft and started to suspect that, though I’d made a bunch...
Experiment to break free of your original draft and truly rewrite your novel

Experiment to break free of your original draft and truly rewrite your novel

by Hillary DePiano | Feb 26, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

You need to rewrite your novel but you’re at a loss of where to start. I’ve been there and I’m sharing what helped me to toss my original version and reinvent my book fresh.  The Brute Force method didn’t work. I needed to shake things up and...
Read the original fairy tales to kids? Maybe, but only with historical context.

Read the original fairy tales to kids? Maybe, but only with historical context.

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 20, 2015 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, Personally...

“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...
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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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