by Hillary DePiano | Oct 10, 2023 | Announcements, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
TL; DR: As they try to figure out how to legislate AI works, the US government is accepting comments from the public until October 18, 2023. Leaving a comment takes seconds, can be done anonymously or if you are outside the US and is incredibly important to small...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 9, 2023 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’m teaching a bunch of writing classes over the course of the next year so I thought it would be helpful to start a list of the books I recommend the most often. Not just to keep them consolidated in one place, but also so I can update them as I find new ones....
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 5, 2023 | Classes and Workshops, Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
With the kids going back to school, you might be thinking of hitting the books yourself and brushing up on your writing skills. The ideal writing class would teach you important skills to help you hone your craft, inspire you to keep on writing, offer feedback and...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 14, 2023 | 4TheWords, Announcements
Gosh, I haven’t done one of these in ages. Mostly because of the whole issue with the new blog post notifications that I explained here. I’ve actually got a lot going on… but I can’t actually announce all of it yet so that’ll have to wait...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 4, 2022 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
What is the NaNoWriMo Global Write-In Crawl (GWIC)? TL; DR: The Global Write-In Crawl (GWIC) is an international, volunteer-run event held over the chat app Discord where writers from all over the world are invited to socialize and participate in “stops”...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 17, 2022 | 4TheWords
4TheWords is a fun and productive writing game that I’ve been playing since May 2018 and highly recommend. It gamifies writing, making the process of building a writing habit fun with an RPG style fantasy game where you defeat monsters, craft items and progress...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
