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Why I won’t be wishing anyone good luck with NaNoWriMo anymore

Why I won’t be wishing anyone good luck with NaNoWriMo anymore

by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2013 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

(No time to read this? There’s a video/audio version here.) “Best of luck with your novel!” “Good luck with NaNoWriMo this year!” “Sorry you didn’t win last year but hopefully you’ll have better luck this year.”...
Over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges but how many performances?

Over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges but how many performances?

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 27, 2013 | My Writing, Uncategorized

Just a quick addendum to this post. As I mentioned, there have now been over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges since I wrote it in 2002. But nearly productions did multiple performances of the show during their run so you may be wondering, how many...

Duck fat

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 13, 2013 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration

Me: This book is depressing me. Long Suffering Husband: What’s it about? Me: It’s not what it’s about that’s the problem. It’s how well it’s written. I’ve heard people talk about getting intimidated by really good writing but...
Celebrating over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges

Celebrating over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 3, 2013 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

People often ask how different writing prose is from stage plays and, to me, the biggest difference is what happens once they are finished. Whenever you finish any writing and publish it, it goes out into the world without you and that’s always a strange...
Polar Twilight featured for Middle School, High School and Community theaters in Playscripts 2013-2014 Play Catalog

Polar Twilight featured for Middle School, High School and Community theaters in Playscripts 2013-2014 Play Catalog

by Hillary DePiano | Aug 9, 2013 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

The 2013-2014 Playscripts Catalog will be coming to a subscriber’s mailbox near you soon but, in the meantime, you can grab an electronic copy right now here. Though Polar Twilight was actually released before the 2012-2013 catalog was released, it was out just...

How I Binge Blog: one for now, one for the can (my rainy day queue of stockpiled posts)

by Hillary DePiano | Jul 13, 2013 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...

People always ask me how I find time to blog so regularly in between everything else I do and I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t blog regularly at all. I blog very sporadically and I just make my various blogs seem like they have a regular posting...
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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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