by Hillary DePiano | Sep 18, 2016 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Reader, I am frustrated. It’s about the MG book I’ve been working on for a while now that is based on two of my plays. “A while” here meaning a period of time impossible to properly quantify as I originally spent a year writing what I realized...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 2, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
I think this might be the first time I’ve written my writing recap after the month has already ended. Here’s what August 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 556,549/600,000 words (93%) Monthly Goal My goal was to take August off. This meant, I could write...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 30, 2016 | Evergreen, Me, but Elsewhere, My Writing, Uncategorized
I did a guest post for the Playscripts blog on Friday called Frugal Fantasy: Making Magic on a Less Than Fantastical Budget filled with tips for making magical effects happen on the stage even if you’re working on a school or community theatre budget. It’s...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 22, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, Uncategorized
One of the challenges of an adaptation of The Green Bird is that I have to serve two masters (obligatory commedia reference!) which means that the sort of risque joke a commedia troupe or community theatre can do might be too much for a school. To that end, I’m...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 19, 2016 | Announcements, Evergreen, My Writing, Uncategorized
If you were inspired by the visual spectacle of Julie Taymor’s award winning Broadway production of Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird back in 2000 and wanted to perform it with your students, you were pretty much out of luck… until now! For the first...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 5, 2016 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
I normally jump right into the numbers but this is an unusual month and, as such, requires a special introduction. (I really want to use a GIF of Rod Serling from the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride intro here because it would be perfect but I can’t find...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
