by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2016 | Living the Writing Life
November is National Novel Writing Month, an international event where participants attempt to write a 50,000 novel in 30 days. I’m a Municipal Liaison (aka ML, fancy name for a local volunteer) for my area (NE NJ), you’ll find the website somewhat...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 28, 2016 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Back in the day, I used to work for one of NaNoWriMo’s sponsors. We were encouraged to sign up for NaNoWriMo and try to participate so we understood what the event was about when customers came to us with questions. I dutifully signed up and joked about writing...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 23, 2016 | Announcements, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Let’s chat NaNoWriMo! Come hang out with me in person this Monday night at 7 PM at the main branch of the Maplewood Library where I’ll be answering questions and offering tips, tricks and advice on how to get through your first novel and the NaNoWriMo...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 4, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Where did the last month of my life go? Did one of you take it? If you did, I won’t even be mad, just give it back because I am seriously not ready for it to be October already. Well, jeez, I guess this is happening so we might as well get down to it… (If...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 30, 2016 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
Exactly a month ago, I told you about my new short drama, Masks, which is part of the new anthology Bullying, INK. from YouthPlays. While you can purchase the play or license it as part of that collection, for the first time, it’s now available as a standalone...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 20, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
Novelists have been doing this sort of post for a while, an all-in-one debrief on exactly how they wrote one of their books day by day (here’s one example and another but there are many out there), but it hasn’t caught on yet in the playwriting community....
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
