by Hillary DePiano | Apr 28, 2015 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
Click the image above to see the rest of the posts in the series On a playwrighting group I belong to on Facebook, someone asked if anyone had an experience with self-publishing plays. I replied about how I had I self-published The Love of Three Oranges, racked up a...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 23, 2015 | Living the Writing Life
I’ve been obsessing lately over the fact that it takes me too long to edit novels. The dumbest part of this is absolutely that I don’t actually even know what “too long” means on any level or how my editing compares with this mythical...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 14, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
In an effort to be more transparent about exactly what I’m working on and how those word counts I share divide up, here’s a recap of what’s been going on since I last checked in: February was a mad dash to finish my total rewrite of Mistress Novel. I...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 5, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
The most useful writing advice and I literally can’t remember where I heard it. But the idea behind it is to leave it all on the table. To put all your best stuff into this book and don’t save anything for mythical future books that may never exist. I took...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 3, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I took a break from rewriting my novel. I’d thought I had it after experimenting and started moving forward with my rewrite again. I actually got to that same third of the way point from the last draft and started to suspect that, though I’d made a bunch...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 26, 2015 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
You need to rewrite your novel but you’re at a loss of where to start. I’ve been there and I’m sharing what helped me to toss my original version and reinvent my book fresh. The Brute Force method didn’t work. I needed to shake things up and...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
