by Hillary DePiano | Jan 13, 2015 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I have a confession and, to be frank, I’m a little ashamed to admit it. But If I’m going to be fair to the realization I had about the value of personal posts and how helpful it can be to see other writers struggle and be real, I think I have to share it....
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 8, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I have created a very simple and very effective writing motivator. It’s a spreadsheet in which I’ve listed every one of my works in progress. This ranges from finished and published works to ideas I’ve only just started to jot down notes for....
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 6, 2015 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
It’s been a little over a month since NaNoWriMo ended and we all parted ways for the holidays. Now that you’ve had the time to recover from your November writing hangover, you’re probably wondering… What do I do now with that novel I wrote for...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 8, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Aw, just look at them. They look so cute together. I had the two of them sitting on my desk and I just had to snap a picture. It’s crazy. The one-act version went from “Eh, I’ll try it.” to published in less than a year. It was December of...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 1, 2014 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally..., Uncategorized
I am a human being. Flawed. Flailing. Far from polished. For the longest time, I’ve been trying to limit the number of personal posts I put on this blog. Things like word count updates, posts where I ramble about my various works in progress, or those posts...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 26, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
“Stop looking at the mountain of words you’ve yet to write. You climb even the steepest path one step at a time and that’s how you’re going to reach your goal: word by word.” -Hillary DePiano That quote above is from a pep talk I did for Camp...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
