by Hillary DePiano | Nov 2, 2019 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
“It sounds amazing in my head but when I write it down, it’s terrible!” Does this sound familiar? You’ve got this fantastic scene in mind, the whole thing is just RIGHT THERE fully formed in your head, and all you need to do is write it down!...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 28, 2019 | Announcements, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Hey! Guess what? I have a new book coming out this October! It’s called Building a Writing Life, after the talk I’ve been doing for the last few years, and it’s all about getting started as a writer and building up a writing habit. It’s the...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 2, 2019 | Announcements, Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, My Writing, Playwriting and Theatre, Uncategorized
Here’s something exciting: The Fourth Orange and Other Fairy Tales You’ve Never Even Heard Of is finally ready to share with the world! This play has been 6 years in the making* and is without a doubt the most complicated thing I have ever attempted to...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 27, 2019 | My Writing, Playwriting and Theatre
Did you see this awesome profile of J’Kalein Madison, a young actor making a splash in the local theatre scene in Waterloo, Iowa? What’s particularly cool is that Madison is a graduate of Waterloo West High School and had this to say about his theatre experience...
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 | Sep 13, 2018 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’m kind of torn on tracking my writing goals quarterly. On one hand, grouping them by season makes sense and I like having only four updates to write and post instead of 12 like before. But the downside is that, even though I wrote myself notes, three months is...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
