by Hillary DePiano | Apr 24, 2017 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
You’ve written a play and you’d really like another set of eyes on it to make sure it’s working as intended. But while beta readers for fiction works, such as novels and short stories, are fairly easy to come by, most writing forums and critique...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 17, 2017 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
One of the first days after my husband’s parental leave ended, my parents offered to come over my house in the morning and watch both kids for me for a couple of hours so that I could have some time to myself. I was very excited. Sure, I’d have to still...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 27, 2017 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Because of the newborn baby in my life, I’ve been looking for unconventional ways to get work done when I’m one-handed because I’m nursing, holding the baby or whatever. One of these experiments is the return of voice-to-text dictation which long...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 3, 2017 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
By popular request, I’m reposting this updated for 2017. It’s exactly the same as last year, only the dates are updated in the spreadsheet (I didn’t update the screenshots, so sue me). I do have a slightly different system I’m personally using...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 1, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
It’s a brand new year which means it’s the traditional time of setting new goals and resolutions for the year ahead. For us writers, that can mean setting deadlines or striving for new writing habits in the coming year. I think taking a few minutes to...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 16, 2016 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I know I’ve said this before but I can’t express to you how glad I am that I changed my writing year so that it ends in November. I made this change on a whim back in 2014Â and it was one of the best decisions I’ve made for both my writing goals and...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
