by Hillary DePiano | Oct 2, 2015 | External Stimuli, Uncategorized
My husband and I decided to take the little one to Disney World a few weeks ago because it was the last year we could do it in the off season without her missing school, there’d been a lot going on so we all badly needed a break and, well, YOLO basically. We had...
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 | Jul 21, 2015 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I am not big on online quizzes but this one happened to catch my eye and I knew I just had to take it. It purported to determine “What commedia dell’arte character are you?” and I took it and to the surprise of no one the result was… I mean,...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 4, 2015 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
My daughter is about a month shy of two and a half. She’s been telling stories and making up songs since she learned to speak but it’s reached a sort of apex recently. One of her favorite things to do is to pick up a random big book or page of a lot of...
by Hillary DePiano | May 21, 2015 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
All work and no play… barely matters when it’s all on the computer anyway, right? From February 28th to the first week of May, my daughter was sick with only a few days of random wellness here and there to break up the endless monotony of cold after cold....
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...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
