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...
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...
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...
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...
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...