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Working with your weirdness

Working with your weirdness

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 21, 2025 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, Personally...

One of the reasons I’m such a big fan of keeping records and analyzing how you work is you realize two things. The first is that we’ve all got our little quirks and you’ll almost immediately start to recognize patterns that amount to Your Individual...
Two new plays and a chance to win a custom monologue written by Hillary DePiano

Two new plays and a chance to win a custom monologue written by Hillary DePiano

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 8, 2025 | Announcements, My Writing

2024 was a busy year for me and I finished two brand new plays that I feel confident saying are some of my best work. My mailing list got a sneak peek at these plays last summer, but I’m finally making them available to everyone with a special contest to help me...
End of Year Odds ‘n Ends

End of Year Odds ‘n Ends

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 30, 2024 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, Personally...

The relentless passage of time bringing anyone else down? Somehow, we have zoomed to the end of another year, one in which I have been lax at blogging. This is partly because I have been super busy with classes and workshops and new plays that we will discuss in...
4TheWords Price Increase: How to lock in the writing game’s old rates

4TheWords Price Increase: How to lock in the writing game’s old rates

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 15, 2024 | 4TheWords, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized

TL;DR: 4TheWords is changing it’s pricing model on August 1st, 2024, but you can lock in the current prices for years in advance for less than the cost of a single year at the new plan if you act quick and take advantage of trading in your crystals As...
Get Stuff Done: Productivity and Goal Tracking for Writers (Feb 5 – March 1, 2024)

Get Stuff Done: Productivity and Goal Tracking for Writers (Feb 5 – March 1, 2024)

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 1, 2024 | Announcements, Classes and Workshops, Me, but Elsewhere, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Looking for some help actually accomplishing all those shiny new writing goals you set for New Year’s? I’d love to help you out! Regular readers know I’m something of a productivity junkie and if you’ve ever wanted to have me take a look at...
NaNoWriMo alternatives to keep you writing in the off-season 

NaNoWriMo alternatives to keep you writing in the off-season 

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 8, 2023 | 4TheWords, Classes and Workshops, Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Keeping the NaNoWriMo Spirit Going Year Round NaNoWriMo is over for another year but there is still plenty of writing still to do. To that end, here’s a list of resources that might serve you in the off-season. Of course, what you need from a post NaNoWriMo year...
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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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