by Hillary DePiano | Feb 4, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
As I discussed over here, I completely redid my writing goals for 2014. A couple of people have asked me to explain my new system (and I know that other post is mad long) so here’s the TL; DR version. Instead of just setting a single total work count goal for...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 9, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Write every day. That’s the mantra you hear from just about every writing adviser online and off. And I agree that writing every day can be incredibly helpful to your productivity and creativity. It would be ideal if we could all write every day… but...
by Hillary DePiano | May 27, 2013 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Back in this post, I mused about the nature of sequels in the theatre and when, if ever, do they work. Believe it or not, this wasn’t just a random rant. It’s actually something I’ve been struggling with several years now. See, in my play, The Love of...
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 18, 2013 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
By now most of you will have heard the news but for those that haven’t: Script Frenzy has been cancelled. I promised you back in this post that we’d discuss this more and I haven’t yet because, frankly, the whole thing leaves a terrible taste in my...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 13, 2012 | Living the Writing Life, Uncategorized
Over the summer, I took a playwriting class. One week, for our assignment, I handed in a scene from The Muppet Play which happens to take place in a subway car. The instructor praised this scene as being an unusual setting, one you didn’t often see in plays,...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
