by Hillary DePiano | Jan 27, 2015 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Scratch and sniff opera: At “Love for Three Oranges” in 1998, patrons received a scratch and sniff card. During the production someone would hold up a number and audience members would scratch off the corresponding number on their card and be...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 15, 2015 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
My brain works in mysterious, often not particularly mainstream, ways. Every year, with NaNoWriMo, I sit down with the other writers and, when someone inevitably asks me what I’m writing, I get a response best described as, “Haha, very funny. What are you...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 13, 2015 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I have a confession and, to be frank, I’m a little ashamed to admit it. But If I’m going to be fair to the realization I had about the value of personal posts and how helpful it can be to see other writers struggle and be real, I think I have to share it....
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 8, 2015 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I have created a very simple and very effective writing motivator. It’s a spreadsheet in which I’ve listed every one of my works in progress. This ranges from finished and published works to ideas I’ve only just started to jot down notes for....
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 6, 2015 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
It’s been a little over a month since NaNoWriMo ended and we all parted ways for the holidays. Now that you’ve had the time to recover from your November writing hangover, you’re probably wondering… What do I do now with that novel I wrote for...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 1, 2015 | Living the Writing Life
Happy New Year! Today’s the last day to grab New Year’s Thieve for free on Amazon and then you never have to hear me go on about it again so I know you’re excited about that! But before we dive head first into 2015, I wanted to take a moment to look...