by Hillary DePiano | Mar 22, 2019 | 4TheWords, Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
4TheWords review in a hurry: While sometimes buggy (as you’d expect from a work in progress), it’s well worth the occasional quirk for this fun and addictive game that motivates you to write more exactly as advertised! And while the site isn’t...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 11, 2019 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, Playwriting and Theatre, Uncategorized
You want to see something really cool? Jada of creamcheese.cosplay is making some absolutely amazing costumes for The Love of Three Oranges and documenting the whole process over on Instagram (a platform I am on but barely know how to use if you want to follow me and...
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 | Feb 12, 2019 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
Fitbit for Writers Can fitness trackers mean more physical exercise for writers? Can having a little gadget strapped to our wrists really make us take better care of ourselves? I decided to try it out for myself. Writing is a very sedentary act. It involves sitting,...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2019 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Every few months I’ll be reading something and I’ll have this full stop epiphany moment where I’ll say to myself… Somebody just made this up and wrote it down. And I almost feel a bit betrayed for a second and then I immediately think… I...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 6, 2018 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
You know what the very best cure for a NaNoWriMo hangover is? Hair of the dog! Just keep on writing! But sometimes that’s not always so easy, especially if you’re feeling a bit burned out and missing all the motivation and fun of the big NaNoWriMo event....
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
