by Hillary DePiano | Jul 28, 2015 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
While my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges stayed fairly close to the original (outside of everything related to the whole Narrator/Celio thing which was all me, baby), my adaptation of The Green Bird is fairly different from Carlo Gozzi’s original. While...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 21, 2015 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I am not big on online quizzes but this one happened to catch my eye and I knew I just had to take it. Â It purported to determine “What commedia dell’arte character are you?” and I took it and to the surprise of no one the result was… I mean,...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 16, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
My adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird is done and I’m incredibly excited to share it with you. There’s  a lot to debrief after this massive project but I want to get some business out of the way first. While I may someday pursue traditional...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 14, 2015 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’ve had a writing epiphany and I think this one is a game changer. Back in December, I started adapting my plays Polar Twilight and New Year’s Thieve as a MG novel. The first draft came very easily and it was pretty put together and I thought I’d...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 7, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
We’re right at the mid-point of 2015 so now seems like as good a time as any for a big State of the Writer post. The halfway point of the year always sneaks up on me. I truly can’t believe that it’s already July! I’m going to bold what each...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 29, 2015 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
Every time I talk about this one on social media, people are always saying things like, “I MUST read that!” and now’s your chance because Playscripts has a special discount right now going on that only applies to holiday plays like Polar Twilight. To...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
