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Becoming your Default Hyperbole Number

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 12, 2016 | External Stimuli, Personally..., Uncategorized

It is my personal theory that everyone has one. “I can’t pick you up right now, bud. I’m already carrying 37 billion things.” “The doctor’s went fine apart from the fact that I had to sit in the waiting room for 37 hours before they...
Playwrights, start a mailing list of past productions to market your latest plays

Playwrights, start a mailing list of past productions to market your latest plays

by Hillary DePiano | Apr 26, 2016 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, Playwriting and Theatre

I’ve mentioned that most of my productions come from my mailing list but what if you don’t have one yet? This question come from a comment on one of the other posts in this series, but I’m popping it out to give it better visibility. Great info,...
Video of Blue Pearl Theatrics’ production of Three Padded Walls

Video of Blue Pearl Theatrics’ production of Three Padded Walls

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 24, 2016 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized

If you missed Three Padded Walls in its run Off Off Broadway, now you’ve got the chance to watch it in full. Blue Pearl Theatrics was kind enough to put a video of the whole performance up on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Please note that, while the script...
A personal thank you to The Drama Book Shop

A personal thank you to The Drama Book Shop

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 18, 2016 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized

As most people in the theatre community have heard by now, The Drama Book Shop, one of the largest and most important drama bookstores in the world, was badly damaged by a burst pipe, losing tons of inventory in one of their most popular sections. If you haven’t...
February 2016: In which I was mostly sick all month but also wrote some stuff

February 2016: In which I was mostly sick all month but also wrote some stuff

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 1, 2016 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, My Writing

I cannot believe it’s March already! Here’s what February 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 150,793/600,000 words (25%) Monthly Goal Planned to take half this month off so I didn’t set a goal other than to not fall behind (which I very nearly did...
In defense of the narcissism of the selfie

In defense of the narcissism of the selfie

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 26, 2015 | Evergreen, External Stimuli

I’ve never really been on board with selfies. If you’ve read my adaptation of The Green Bird, you know there’s a running gag with a narcissistic character doing the period equivalent version of a selfie. When my cousins were teens and they used to...
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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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