by Hillary DePiano | Nov 4, 2022 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
What is the NaNoWriMo Global Write-In Crawl (GWIC)? TL; DR: The Global Write-In Crawl (GWIC) is an international, volunteer-run event held over the chat app Discord where writers from all over the world are invited to socialize and participate in “stops”...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 17, 2022 | 4TheWords
4TheWords is a fun and productive writing game that I’ve been playing since May 2018 and highly recommend. It gamifies writing, making the process of building a writing habit fun with an RPG style fantasy game where you defeat monsters, craft items and progress...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 28, 2021 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
I’ve been on a blogging and social media hiatus basically since the pandemic started but that doesn’t mean I haven’t still been working. But things have been kind of crazy and time’s blurring together so I figured now might be a great time to...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 3, 2021 | Announcements, My Writing, Playwriting and Theatre
Long time no chat! I’m still on my hiatus from social media but I want to pop in with some exciting news! My first play specifically for elementary school aged performers and up, The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Storm, is now available exclusively through...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 12, 2020 | Announcements, My Writing
In other exciting news, Week Daze (formerly named Weak Days just to make my life as confusing as possible) is now available exclusively from Stage Partners! There are two separate versions of this play. One is a traditional stage play that can be performed socially...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 7, 2020 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I know that some of you out there are as obsessive as me when it comes to trying to figure out how far along you are in National Novel Writing Month so I decided to share my personal calculator. It’s simple but powerful. This calculator will work in Open Office,...