by Hillary DePiano | Feb 24, 2015 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I recently scrapped a polished, praised “finished” draft and completely rewrote it from scratch. I found almost no articles to help with this kind of extensive rewrite despite the fact that it has to be more common than anyone would admit. Surely I am not...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 19, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Back in 2009, I finished the project nicknamed Mistress Novel. I rewrote and revised it until it was as good as I could make it on my own and sent it to Beta readers in April 2011. I made another round of extensive edits based on that feedback and had a...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 17, 2015 | Announcements, Playwriting and Theatre
Weak Days a comedy in one-act by Hillary DePiano 6-7 Gender Neutral roles Run Time: 40 – 45 minutes We’ve all got our routines. It’s comfortable, doing the same thing every day. But when something makes you stop and really look at your life, you may find...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 10, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, Uncategorized
While my mail list got a sneak peek of something coming soon yesterday, it’s far from the only thing in the pipeline. Here’s a quick update on what I’m working on right now: I finished a new play a few weeks ago. My mailing list is getting first...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 3, 2015 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, My Writing, Uncategorized
I set up a mailing list a long time ago but I’ve never really pushed it here on the blog for a variety of reasons not worth going into. But exciting thing are happening at Burger King, as they say (OK, fine, no one but me says that but still) and it’s time...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 29, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
When I was at the TGIO* for my NaNoWriMo area last year, we were talking about keeping the writing going year round because a lot of my Wrimos have no problem writing 50,000 words every November but struggle to write anywhere near that the entire rest of the year...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
