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One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.

One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.

by Hillary DePiano | Feb 11, 2014 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

There’s a rule you’ll see over and over again in script writing that states that one page of script is about 1 minute of stage or screen time. You’re told that a 30 minute play should be 30 pages or a 90 minute movie would be a 90 page script. But...
Augment your word count goals with percentage based benchmarks for more focused writing

Augment your word count goals with percentage based benchmarks for more focused writing

by Hillary DePiano | Feb 4, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

As I discussed over here, I completely redid my writing goals for 2014. A couple of people have asked me to explain my new system (and I know that other post is mad long) so here’s the TL; DR version. Instead of just setting a single total work count goal for...
Getting more writing done with less time

Getting more writing done with less time

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2014 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...

Pre-motherhood, it was not uncommon for me to work well over 40 hours a week. I tried to devote at least 40 to my money making activities and then leave myself a couple dozen hours for writing. (OK, yes, some of my day job work is also writing. But I tend to think of...

How a yearly writing goal can give you more flexibility than a daily one

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 9, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Write every day. That’s the mantra you hear from just about every writing adviser online and off. And I agree that writing every day can be incredibly helpful to your productivity and creativity. It would be ideal if we could all write every day… but...

There is something so genuine about this high schooler’s review of The Love of Three Oranges

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 7, 2014 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized

I just love it and had to share. The Love of Three Oranges By Ryan Yamaguchi on December 5, 2013 “The Love of Three Oranges” by Hillary De Piano is described as a “fairy tale on crack.” It consists of many puns and is interactive with the audience. This play is a...

The Love of Three Oranges at Longwood University review: “It’s like the fourth wall never even existed.”

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 2, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized

While I’ve already told you about the factual error in this review, the rest of it is really good and I wanted to share parts of it because it’s really a great review. I’m going to bold the lines that are my favorite. [SOURCE] ‘The Love of Three...
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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.

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