by Hillary DePiano | Mar 5, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
The most useful writing advice and I literally can’t remember where I heard it. But the idea behind it is to leave it all on the table. To put all your best stuff into this book and don’t save anything for mythical future books that may never exist. I took...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 3, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I took a break from rewriting my novel. I’d thought I had it after experimenting and started moving forward with my rewrite again. I actually got to that same third of the way point from the last draft and started to suspect that, though I’d made a bunch...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 26, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
You need to rewrite your novel but you’re at a loss of where to start. I’ve been there and I’m sharing what helped me to toss my original version and reinvent my book fresh. The Brute Force method didn’t work. I needed to shake things up and...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 29, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
When I was at the TGIO* for my NaNoWriMo area last year, we were talking about keeping the writing going year round because a lot of my Wrimos have no problem writing 50,000 words every November but struggle to write anywhere near that the entire rest of the year...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 27, 2015 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Scratch and sniff opera: At “Love for Three Oranges” in 1998, patrons received a scratch and sniff card. During the production someone would hold up a number and audience members would scratch off the corresponding number on their card and be...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 15, 2015 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
My brain works in mysterious, often not particularly mainstream, ways. Every year, with NaNoWriMo, I sit down with the other writers and, when someone inevitably asks me what I’m writing, I get a response best described as, “Haha, very funny. What are you...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
