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Five things you should know before you start editing your novel or script

Five things you should know before you start editing your novel or script

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 1, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

Editing. Maybe you envision some proofreading, correcting a few typos, and trimming a few sections. But until you’ve actually edited an entire book or script you don’t really know quite what you’re in for. Here’s five things you should really...

The Love of Three Oranges: the cure for the common Apocalypse

by Hillary DePiano | Feb 21, 2012 | My Writing, Uncategorized

Skyline High School is performing The Love of Three Oranges this upcoming weekend. They created a website specifically for their production which you can check out here. But I wanted to particularly highlight this line from their site: Because of the impending doom of...
Playscripts, Inc highlights The Love of Three Oranges as a Featured Title

Playscripts, Inc highlights The Love of Three Oranges as a Featured Title

by Hillary DePiano | Feb 9, 2012 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized

I just wanted to pop in to show you guys this: Playscripts has been featuring Three Oranges in little Featured Title blocks throughout the site. The amount of support they’ve given this play has been absolutely amazing and this is just another way they’ve...
The Love of Three Oranges: Everything you love about a musical but with more flexibility & half the cost

The Love of Three Oranges: Everything you love about a musical but with more flexibility & half the cost

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 26, 2012 | My Writing, Uncategorized

It’s pretty darn cold out there right now so it’s hard to remember that Spring is right around the corner. For schools, this means you’ll need to start thinking about your next musical. But money is tight everywhere and musicals can be so...
My new favorite review of The Love of Three Oranges

My new favorite review of The Love of Three Oranges

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 17, 2012 | My Writing, Uncategorized

I usually just pop onto Goodreads to add whatever I’ve read recently and I don’t always remember to look at my own books which is why it took me so long to notice this review from Katie: A big thank you to Katie for taking the time to write all of that up....
I am apparently incapable of writing a play for adults that doesn’t contain a scene in a subway

I am apparently incapable of writing a play for adults that doesn’t contain a scene in a subway

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 13, 2012 | Living the Writing Life, Uncategorized

Over the summer, I took a playwriting class. One week, for our assignment, I handed in a scene from The Muppet Play which happens to take place in a subway car. The instructor praised this scene as being an unusual setting, one you didn’t often see in plays,...
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