by Hillary DePiano | Apr 15, 2014 | External Stimuli, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
No matter how badly this month is going (and I, too, am oh so behind) you’ve got to stick this Camp NaNoWriMo journey out until the very end because… …my pep talk won’t come out until the end of the month and if you quit early, you’ll...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 3, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
The Love of 3 Oranges is a Commedia D’ell Arte scenario by Carlo Gozzi around 1761. The play was later adapted in 2002 by the brilliant composer Sergei Prokofiev as a full stage play. -SOURCE. Someone’s research went terribly wrong here. Sergei Prokofiev...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 25, 2014 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
At this point in the year, us NaNoWriMo alumni are all in very different places in our writing life. Some of you are undertaking my Editing Challenge and working towards getting that novel you wrote during NaNoWriMo ready for the world. Others are still finishing...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 20, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
I just found out at this production of The Love of Three Oranges happening in Santa Ynez, California this weekend and I just had to share their poster with you because, well, look at it… Do you not love Ace the royal cat in the bottom right corner? I died of...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 18, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
I mentioned the Longwood University production of The Love of Three Oranges here and here but when Brian pointed me to the trailer they made for their production, it was just too awesome not to share! (If the embed doesn’t work, here’s the direct link:...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 25, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
I know. We’ve covered this before. But for some reason this misconception keeps coming up and it drives me batty. Take this line from The Rotunda’s review of Longwood University’s production of The Love of Three Oranges: In the style of “commedia...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
