by Hillary DePiano | Jul 22, 2013 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
The little one was born in December. Between the fact that you need to limit a newborn’s exposure to public spaces and the fact that I couldn’t drive, we were stuck inside for most of the first three months of the year. Beyond driving around, it was also...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 29, 2013 | External Stimuli
My mother is a voracious reader, reading often a book or more a day. While she likes a variety of genres from paranormal to historical, they almost all have some element of romance to them. If you’ve read any romance books, however, you know that, no matter how...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 11, 2013 | External Stimuli
My mother rounds up. “You better finish your homework. It’s already 9 o’clock!” she’s say and a glance at the clock would reveal that it was actually only 8:15. You can say that she was trying to trick us but I’ve seen it happen in...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 8, 2013 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I don’t share every review of The Love of Three Oranges because there are just too many of them but, every now and then, one catches my eye and this one by Margaret McNamara may be my new favorite. It’s just peppered with jokes and references from the show...
by Hillary DePiano | May 25, 2013 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
Someone brought this great review of The Love of Three Oranges to my attention and, while the whole thing is both raving and well written, I especially loved the last line from the reviewer: “The Episcopal Academy Domino Club proved that audiences...
by Hillary DePiano | May 19, 2013 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, Playwriting and Theatre
I’m not going to lie to you guys, I wrote a sequel to Guys and Dolls in high school. It will never see the light of day because it’s terrible but I wrote it because I wanted to see more of those characters and see where they ended up after the curtain fell. I guess...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
