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The Tale of Tales: the highly customizable, mix and match commedia style fairy tale play OF YOUR DREAMS

The Tale of Tales: the highly customizable, mix and match commedia style fairy tale play OF YOUR DREAMS

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 31, 2018 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

What is The Tale of Tales play? Around this time last year, I announced the premiere of a brand new play, The Tale of Tales. Considering I’m in the midst of a many year project of adapting Giambattista Basile’s Tale of Tales collection in a dozen different...
From the mailbag: When does your play need an editor & when should you copyright?

From the mailbag: When does your play need an editor & when should you copyright?

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 20, 2018 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

Hi Hillary, I’m an author and I’ve worked with editors/publishers with my book. I understand that process but as a new playwright, I’m not sure how to go about getting my 3 plays critiqued, edited and proofread. I’m an indie author and self...
Break into YA writing by starting with the stage before the page

Break into YA writing by starting with the stage before the page

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 13, 2018 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

If you’re a YA writer having trouble breaking in, you might be better off getting started with writing YA plays first. I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for ages but then this question came in from the mailbag which gave me the perfect...
Kanban for writers: organize book releases, revisions & more with project management boards

Kanban for writers: organize book releases, revisions & more with project management boards

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 6, 2018 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources

Kanban for Writers My writing life is a many headed beast. I write fiction, non-fiction, freelance articles, stage plays and more under a variety of pen names. I’m always looking for better ways to prioritize and manage all these different project so I’m...
Camp NaNoWriMo July 2018 debrief

Camp NaNoWriMo July 2018 debrief

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 1, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

I went into Camp NaNoWriMo’s July session with low expectations. My only word count goal was to try to hit 50,000 words as that would make it my highest word count month for this laid back, low goal year and be good practice for NaNoWriMo proper. As for what I...
A Writer’s Guide to Resistance: how to keep writing in a world gone mad

A Writer’s Guide to Resistance: how to keep writing in a world gone mad

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...
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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.

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