by Hillary DePiano | Oct 27, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
Regular readers know that I’ve been having some serious problems with my hands since late June. In short, I cannot use my hands for using the computer mouse, playing video games or… typing. So about now you’re probably wondering, how is she going to...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 19, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I love working to music. Music is pretty much playing all the time, every second that I’m at the computer. When I work, I like to sing along and seat dance. The only time I shut the music off, as a matter of fact, is when I’m writing. But for some people,...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 26, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
To a layman, editing usually means reading something over and catching a few typos. But for more serious writers, be they fiction, educational, technical or non-fiction, know that sometimes editing means taking the whole thing apart, moving things around, hacking...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 24, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre, Writing Advice and Resources
Script Frenzy is coming up (the challenge to write a 30 day script in the month of April from the makers of NaNoWriMo) and you are thinking about writing a Stage Play. Whether you are a frequent playwright or stage performer or someone who doesn’t know when to...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 11, 2010 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
(I’ve posted this before but it bears repeating.)On good days, everything goes right and I have the whole script executed from start to finish within four or five hours. On bad days I write the whole script in four or five hours, realise that it’s useless,...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 9, 2010 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
If you are stuck for an idea for Script Frenzy, NaNoWriMo or another other project, sometimes you just need a little creative push. Or maybe you have a few seconds to kill and you just want a laugh. Either way, a random plot generator can help you out either way....
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
