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,...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 29, 2011 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
How to validate as a NaNoWriMo winner Log into the NaNoWriMo site. Go to Edit Novel Info under My NaNoWriMo. Under the Word Count box, click I am ready to validate my novel. Paste your novel in the pop-up window and submit to verify. Don’t see that validate...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 7, 2011 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, Personally...
So, for posterity, we had a freakish out of season snowstorm on October 29th. Because there were still leaves on the trees, the snow pulled down many, many branches and whole trees. If you aren’t in the area, it’s really hard to explain just how massive...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 1, 2011 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Heh. That title rhymes. NaNoWriMo buddies are a long standing tradition of National Novel Writing Month. Sometimes they take the feature down while relaunching the site but we always get them back before the competition really starts. To add any other NaNoWriMo user...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
