by Hillary DePiano | Oct 6, 2014 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
One of the strangest pregnancy side effect is weird dreams. Like, dreams so vivid and dark  that your doctor actually warns you about them ahead of time so you don’t think you’ve gone completely insane. So, like, next level weird. Yeah, that’s a...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 29, 2014 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, My Writing
Sometimes I make poor life decisions. Sometimes I do dumb things like stay up all night reading when I know perfectly well the baby will be up before dawn. Or I go to the bank without to bringing the check I needed to cash. Or I completely forget that my wedding...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 23, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Look what I just got in the mail! It’s… not orange! I feel like that’s kind of a plot twist… Anyway, now that you’ve seen the cover, go ahead and read all but the last few scenes of the play for free here....
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 16, 2014 | Living the Writing Life
As I prepare for NaNoWriMo 2014, I realized I never got to tell you guys anything about the project I did for NaNoWriMo 2013. I’d like to introduce you to a new work in progress: M5. It’s short for a very long alliterative title. If you went to middle...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 9, 2014 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I started an adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird* back in 2002 but abandoned it… only to pick the project back up again this year. There are three big reasons why I walked away and ultimately came back to this play and I’m going to devote a...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 3, 2014 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
Not to get all clickbait on you but you won’t believe what just happened… You know how I told you last Friday that I sent my final edits on the one-act version of The Love of Three Oranges to Playscripts on 8/20? Check this out… Well, golly! That was...