by Hillary DePiano | Mar 1, 2016 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, My Writing
I cannot believe it’s March already! Here’s what February 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 150,793/600,000 words (25%) Monthly Goal Planned to take half this month off so I didn’t set a goal other than to not fall behind (which I very nearly did...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 29, 2016 | Announcements, Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I’ve got a brand new book out today in eBook and paperback, NaNo What Now? Finding your editing process, revising your NaNoWriMo book and building a writing career through publishing and beyond, and you may be wondering if this book is for you. To give you a...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 4, 2016 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
In the interest of transparency, I promised to start doing a monthly recap of my writing life instead of just the big yearly one to give a sense of what I actually do in a given month. I don’t want this to be crazy long so let’s just dive into it....
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 2, 2016 | Announcements, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
Yes, I have yet another publishing announcement. I’m apparently only productive in weird spurts, I don’t know what to tell you. But in addition to my new play, The She Bear, the big revision of The Green Bird (which is live so update your eBook copies),...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2016 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
I honestly didn’t think it was possible but I pulled it off! After finishing a big revision of The Green Bird at the very end of December, I spent the beginning of January chopping the two-hour full length play down to about half an hour. It was such an...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 26, 2016 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
Yes, siree, only the highest quality Photoshopping is good enough for my blog… If you thought The Revenant would have been better if Leonardo DiCaprio & the bear fell in love HAVE I GOT A PLAY FOR YOU! The second of my Tale of Tales plays is now available...