by Hillary DePiano | Jun 27, 2017 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I have a brand new play, The (Completely Inaccurate) Legend of the Mummy Witch House, which has just officially been published by Playscripts. You can read the play for free*, purchase scripts or license productions here. It’s a short, very silly,...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 6, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
I was going to make the title of this post a play on May Day and then fell into a Wikipedia hole about May Day, the spring holiday, vs MayDay, the distress signal, and barely escaped so that’s why you got a boring title instead. The fact that it is already June...
by Hillary DePiano | May 31, 2017 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’ve tried to write this post a dozen times already and gotten too annoyed to continue every time. Why? Pull up a chair, I’ll try to explain without rage-quitting this time. You know I strive for complete transparency in my writing process so join me for a...
by Hillary DePiano | May 5, 2017 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Multiple people told me they assumed I’d be taking the April session of Camp NaNoWriMo off this year because of the new baby and I was like, “Ha! Have you met me?” It would have been sensible and healthy to take Camp NaNoWriMo off after just having a...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 30, 2017 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
Despite the fact that life with a new baby is chaos and we’ve got the multipliers of a preschooler and having just moved to monkey wrench the whole dealie, I feel like I’m doing much better than I did after my first daughter was born. Not just from a...
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...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
