by Hillary DePiano | Nov 12, 2015 | My Writing, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
So, remember how I told you I had a Class Two sprain on my ankle? Well, we later found out it was a Class Four sprain. Then I dropped three large folding tables on my toe on the same foot at our NaNoWriMo kick-off party. When I went to get that x-rayed, the doctor was...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 6, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing
I’m having a kind of crazy year and I think it’s probably easiest to just show you what I mean rather than try to explain. Not counting all the events I’m running (and fundraising stunts I’m coordinating) for NaNoWriMo or family holidays and...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 22, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
It’s hard to say exactly what draws me to adaptation. Most of the time, I like something in it but hate the rest of it and I end up adapting it to “fix” whatever’s annoying me about the original. But every now and then, I read a story that just...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 20, 2015 | My Writing, Uncategorized
It’s been 13 freaking years since I decided to read the Tale of Tales. Almost three years since I actually started reading it and realized I wanted to adapt, like, all of it. Nearly a year since I had to read it all over again because I realized I was reading an...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 13, 2015 | Announcements, Me, but Elsewhere, My Writing, Uncategorized
In all the hubbub lately, I forgot to share that my play, Weak Days, won in the one-act category of The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s 16th Annual New Play Contest. They’ll be a reading of the play with minimal staging at The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s New...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 15, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Here’s what I’ve been working on since we last checked in… Remember last year when I had The Love of Three Oranges (one-act version), Sell Their Stuff, New Year’s Thieve and the paperback of Beyond Amazon, eBay and Etsy all coming out within a...