by Hillary DePiano | Dec 26, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing
My plan for this month was simple. I was determined to finish the rewrite of Mistress Novel, getting all the scenes I rewrote together and figuring out what still needed to be written before I started the final polishing of this version. Simple enough, I thought, and...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 17, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’ve had a couple of writing epiphanies recently and they’ve completely change how I approach the keyboard each day. For the first time in maybe ever I’m starting to really feel like I know what I’m doing. I think I’ve stumbled upon...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 8, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Aw, just look at them. They look so cute together. I had the two of them sitting on my desk and I just had to snap a picture. It’s crazy. The one-act version went from “Eh, I’ll try it.” to published in less than a year. It was December of...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 1, 2014 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally..., Uncategorized
I am a human being. Flawed. Flailing. Far from polished. For the longest time, I’ve been trying to limit the number of personal posts I put on this blog. Things like word count updates, posts where I ramble about my various works in progress, or those posts...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 26, 2014 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
“Stop looking at the mountain of words you’ve yet to write. You climb even the steepest path one step at a time and that’s how you’re going to reach your goal: word by word.” -Hillary DePiano That quote above is from a pep talk I did for Camp...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 25, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
My posting schedule is kind of shot to hell this month partly because of NaNoWriMo and partly because there is just so much going on between a dozen productions of The Love of Three Oranges and the two (um, three now, more on that on The Whine Seller tomorrow) new...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
