by Hillary DePiano | Jul 15, 2014 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
Several years ago, I was working at a small business. Besides myself, there were four other people on the staff and the boss. It was time for our weekly staff meeting and three of us were already there at the table when the boss walked in and said, “Let’s...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 8, 2014 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
Creative Revolution just ended their run of The Love of Three Oranges and shared this great gallery of production stills from their run. See them all in a glorious full size slideshow here. One of my favorite things about looking through a gallery of production stills...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 1, 2014 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
One of the biggest things I’ve struggled with in my writing life is keeping a balance between the types of writing i have to do. I tend to get laser focused and obsess over a certain project and, while that meant I finished it, it meant that I’d completely...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 24, 2014 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Once you harness your plot bunnies,  productive writing feels like cheating and the words come easier. Let me explain. I keep mentioning that my new percentage based writing goal is really working well but I’ve never really explained why. Let’s go into...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 19, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
One of the biggest FAQs I get is about the scene in Act 1, Scene 1 between King Silvio and Pantalone and the double entendre speech. Many schools and theatres find that speech to be a bit too racy for their tastes and want to rework it. To that end, I wrote an...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 17, 2014 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
I have some exciting news! For as much as I yammer on about my various works in progress, I’ve had a secret project going on in the background all this time and I’m so excited to finally be able to tell you about it. I sold another play! Actually, I sold...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
