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What’s different in Hillary DePiano’s adaptation of The Green Bird vs Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte original

What’s different in Hillary DePiano’s adaptation of The Green Bird vs Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte original

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 28, 2015 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized

While my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges stayed fairly close to the original (outside of everything related to the whole Narrator/Celio thing which was all me, baby), my adaptation of The Green Bird is fairly different from Carlo Gozzi’s original. While...
eBooks of The Green Bird are available for pre-order now, acting editions to follow

eBooks of The Green Bird are available for pre-order now, acting editions to follow

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 16, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

My adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird is done and I’m incredibly excited to share it with you. There’s  a lot to debrief after this massive project but I want to get some business out of the way first. While I may someday pursue traditional...
On plotters & pantsers and why the designation no longer matters by the second draft

On plotters & pantsers and why the designation no longer matters by the second draft

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 14, 2015 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

I’ve had a writing epiphany and I think this one is a game changer.  Back in December, I started adapting my plays Polar Twilight and New Year’s Thieve as a MG novel. The first draft came very easily and it was pretty put together and I thought I’d...
Make it easier to add a new habit by fitting it into the life you’re already living

Make it easier to add a new habit by fitting it into the life you’re already living

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 23, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized

There’s something right now that you want to be doing but you can’t seem to fit it into your life. Maybe it’s more writing time or maybe it’s something else but, whatever it is, the secret to forcing a new habit into your life is to line it up...
Keep your writing on track and balance multiple projects with a simple project priority list

Keep your writing on track and balance multiple projects with a simple project priority list

by Hillary DePiano | Jun 16, 2015 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

One very simple writing tool I recently added to the mix was a dry erase board next to my computer monitor that’s a priority list of all my projects. The board used to be a list of every project I wanted to write someday and it took me until recently to realize...
On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post

On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post

by Hillary DePiano | Apr 28, 2015 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

Click the image above to see the rest of the posts in the series On a playwrighting group I belong to on Facebook, someone asked if anyone had an experience with self-publishing plays. I replied about how I had I self-published The Love of Three Oranges, racked up a...
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