by Hillary DePiano | May 13, 2013 | External Stimuli, Personally...
When I was very little, my mother was trying to take a nap and I wanted her to play with me. She tried to explain to me that she was very tired and needed some rest and I stood in the doorway of her bedroom and responded, “You can sleep when you’re in...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 20, 2013 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I don’t normally do cross-overs like this but I wanted to add something to this post from The Whine Seller: How do you do your To Do (list)? To recap, it’s a post about how I use electronic To Do lists for big projects but I keep my daily To Dos on a good...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 29, 2013 | External Stimuli, Personally...
Today is March 29th. It is also Good Friday. The last time Good Friday fell on March 29th was 2002. I was a senior in college. Many of our friends had gone home for the holiday weekend but three of my best friends were still on campus: Katie, Neal and Steve. We...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 27, 2013 | External Stimuli, Personally...
This year kicked my butt in a lot of huge ways but I hesitate to call 2012 a bad year. It was weird, challenging, and taxing, sure, but we were incredibly fortunate that everything bad that happened ultimately worked out for the best. For instance… When two of...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 18, 2013 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I’ve mentioned before how truly awesome it is to be a writer in this digital age and see your fans and readers talking about your book or play in real time. Well, look what I found on Twitter: Talk about a tweet! (I blotted out all the identifying details...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 12, 2013 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I don’t have a lot of occasion to look at the Amazon page for The Love of Three Oranges since copies are no longer sold there. When I did happen to glance at it recently (mostly because I was trying to figure out how people get off selling copies for $300+ when...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
