by Hillary DePiano | Apr 26, 2012 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I want to talk about a very powerful and tool called ManicTime. This slick little program is free (with a paid version that gives you additional features) and has a host of practical applications no matter what you’re doing on your computer. Â But it can be a...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 25, 2012 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
You offered to read your friend’s book. Or maybe it was a short story. Or a play. Either way, your friend wrote something and you promised to be a beta reader and give them some feedback. Except that now you’ve changed your mind. Maybe you’ve since...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 3, 2012 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
If you’re near Plymouth, WI next week, you’ll want to check out Plymouth High School’s production of The Love of Three Oranges running Thursday through Saturday, April 12-14. The Sheboygan Press did a big feature on their production that you can...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 12, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
There’s something familiar about prose. We’ve all read at least a book or two in our lives and we understand generally how words flow together in a story. There’s also something comfortingly self-contained about writing a book or story. We write it...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 10, 2012 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
We’ve all got that story that we haven’t been able to get quite right yet. Maybe it’s a novel that stalled out so you never finished it. Maybe it’s a short story that just isn’t working no matter how many revisions you do. Maybe...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 7, 2012 | External Stimuli, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
OK, a little background. Over on the Script Frenzy site, some of us NaNoWriMo alumni were talking about Screnzy and what it’s like being a veteran of both. nature-elf aka Melinda Chen mentioned that she was originally reluctant to try Script Frenzy because it...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
