by Hillary DePiano | Jun 30, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
You know what the problem is with becoming organized and efficient? I really miss being able to write about whatever random thing I felt like it. Sure, I wasn’t getting anything accomplished that way and I wasn’t moving towards my goals effectively in a...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 15, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Spring took its sweet time getting here but when it finally did battle its way past all the snow it was nice… for the few days it was here before giving way to the sweltering hot summer-like temperatures… before it went back to a little chilly and now...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 15, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
This year, I decided to start doing my writing debriefs quarterly. Partly because I just don’t have time anymore to take the incoherent screeds from my private writing journal and make them pretty enough to post every month, partly because it better reflects the...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 26, 2018 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
When I was a sophomore in high school, I was in a production of Cinderella (as Cinderella, naturally) and it was the first time I was really starting to feel the struggle of balancing everything I want to do between extracurriculars and theatre and social life and...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 15, 2018 | Living the Writing Life
It is time, yet again, to set up some goals for the year ahead and I am posting them on my blog as usual to make it real and help make me feel accountable. So let’s just dive into what I’m striving for this year and why. Word Count Goal: 350,000 Regular...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 28, 2017 | Living the Writing Life
As part of a larger effort to organize my life and make better use of what little writing time I have these days, I decided to do up a massive Project Status Report of everything I’m working on and where it is now. Couple of things before we start this. I have WAY too...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
