by Hillary DePiano | Sep 27, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
The 2016 election threw us all for a loop that we’re still dealing with. Shortly after the election, I saw a tweet to the effect that you’ll probably be able to tell exactly where writers were in their manuscripts when the election happened and I thought...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 30, 2017 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
Despite the fact that life with a new baby is chaos and we’ve got the multipliers of a preschooler and having just moved to monkey wrench the whole dealie, I feel like I’m doing much better than I did after my first daughter was born. Not just from a...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 3, 2017 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
By popular request, I’m reposting this updated for 2017. It’s exactly the same as last year, only the dates are updated in the spreadsheet (I didn’t update the screenshots, so sue me). I do have a slightly different system I’m personally using...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 16, 2016 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I know I’ve said this before but I can’t express to you how glad I am that I changed my writing year so that it ends in November. I made this change on a whim back in 2014Â and it was one of the best decisions I’ve made for both my writing goals and...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2015 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I don’t know about you but there are still a few hours left to go before National Novel Writing Month starts in my neck of the woods and for some time zones there are many hours left before the starting pistol. But instead of sitting here chomping at the bit...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 11, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, Playwriting and Theatre
The follow up to my adaptation to The Green Bird was already well underway when I finished that project and, while I’ve referred to it generally a few times before, it’s time to really introduce you to my next adaptation. In college, when I was working on...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
