by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
“What are you doing for NaNoWriMo this year, Hillary?” Is a thing people keep asking me and I keep answering something along the lines of, “Haha, just trying to survive!” And they laugh. But I am not joking. Like, can I get real for a moment?...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 4, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Here’s what September 2017 looked like in writing… Total Words Written This Month 31,753 words Average Words Per Day 1,058 words Monthly Goal didn’t set one Yearly Goal 477,587 / 500,000 (96%) Things completed: did an abridged version of Pintosmalto aka Arm Candy for...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 1, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Nothing sums up 2017 like the fact that I’ve started to include the letters I write to my government reps in my word count because of the number of times I’ve had to write them. I’m up to contacting them daily now and everything is complete and total...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 6, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
If my records are correct, this July was my 9th Camp NaNoWriMo victory, lucky 13th time participating. While there’s a lot about the event that is wonky and ways it can improve, it’s still amazing how the accountability of having other people aware of my...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 31, 2017 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
In all the moving / having a baby madness of the last year, I finished a play but forgot to actually tell anyone about it for almost an entire year! (Like, seriously 11 months almost to the day as I finished it on August 29th, 2016.) This play is The Myrtle, the fairy...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 10, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Time is absolutely rocketing by and it is unacceptable. Baby is getting all big and stuff which is very rude when I want her to stay tiny and snuggly forever. But she said, “Mama” a week ago so I forgive her. The other one said just about every word in the...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
