by Hillary DePiano | Oct 25, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
You’ll probably feel a overwhelmed, especially in the beginning. After all the anticipation, the beginning of NaNoWriMo can sometimes be killer on your creativity. You’ll be staring and that blank page with this feeling that all of your ideas have completely left you...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 24, 2014 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’m so excited. I can’t wait to start my NaNoWriMo novel. I want to be writing it RIGHT NOW! Usually, when people complain about having to wait to start their NaNoWriMo novels, I point them to this post and all the reasons I recommend just going ahead and...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 29, 2014 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Sometimes I make poor life decisions. Sometimes I do dumb things like stay up all night reading when I know perfectly well the baby will be up before dawn. Or I go to the bank without to bringing the check I needed to cash. Or I completely forget that my wedding...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 23, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Look what I just got in the mail! It’s… not orange! I feel like that’s kind of a plot twist… Anyway, now that you’ve seen the cover, go ahead and read all but the last few scenes of the play for free here....
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 9, 2014 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I started an adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird* back in 2002 but abandoned it… only to pick the project back up again this year. There are three big reasons why I walked away and ultimately came back to this play and I’m going to devote a...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 3, 2014 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
Not to get all clickbait on you but you won’t believe what just happened… You know how I told you last Friday that I sent my final edits on the one-act version of The Love of Three Oranges to Playscripts on 8/20? Check this out… Well, golly! That was...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
