by Hillary DePiano | Jul 30, 2018 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
No, it’s not just you. It is really freaking hard to write right now. The world has gone mad, everything is terrible and all that continuous fear and rage and stress makes it really hard to focus on anything, much less fiction. Creatives, like writers, are...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 1, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
There are so many people on my social feeds right now talking about how much they miss writing now that NaNoWriMo is over and I know this is crazy but hear me out… what if you just kept writing? Like, what if you didn’t stop just because we flipped the...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 30, 2017 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
Since early 2003, you’ve been hearing me talk about my project adapting the Italian fairy tale collection, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales aka the Pentamerone, into a whole bunch of plays. There are six tales plays from this project finished so (of...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 26, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
There is less than a week before we emerge, blinking, into sparkling December. While a handful of you have already finished your novel and are now winding the month down, adding finishing touches and picking out the sweater you’ll wear in your author photo, the...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 12, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Wrimos, to be on pace, you should be hitting 20,000 words TODAY. If you’re not there yet, do not fret! There’s still plenty of time to hit 50,000 and beyond, you just gotta stick with it! We’re due at the halfway point by Wednesday and then...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2017 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Mere hours stand between us and the beginning of National Novel Writing Month. Whether you’re about to attempt your first novel or your fifty first, it’s going to be a wild ride of fun and productivity. As soon as the clock ticks over to November 1st,...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
