by Hillary DePiano | Jul 29, 2014 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
Remember when I said I was working on a follow-up to The Love of Three Oranges? I lied. I’m working on two. And, no, the one-act version doesn’t count. I’m talking about two MORE plays. Back in May of 2013, I was having trouble with hardcore...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 24, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I haven’t done a word count update in ages so let’s just get right into things with our friend the potato: 227,069 words out of 400,000! (I feel like I am always using the exhausted potato graphic but it’s always the one that best fits…) One...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 15, 2014 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
Several years ago, I was working at a small business. Besides myself, there were four other people on the staff and the boss. It was time for our weekly staff meeting and three of us were already there at the table when the boss walked in and said, “Let’s...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 8, 2014 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
Creative Revolution just ended their run of The Love of Three Oranges and shared this great gallery of production stills from their run. See them all in a glorious full size slideshow here. One of my favorite things about looking through a gallery of production stills...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 1, 2014 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
Tomorrow is the exact middle of the year. That just blows my mind because it does NOT feel like we are halfway through this year and also fills me with panic. There’s so much I wanted to do this year and, while I have gotten a lot done, there have been several...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 1, 2014 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
One of the biggest things I’ve struggled with in my writing life is keeping a balance between the types of writing i have to do. I tend to get laser focused and obsess over a certain project and, while that meant I finished it, it meant that I’d completely...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
