by Hillary DePiano | May 20, 2014 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I was having an email chat with a friend about the classic writing advice to show, not tell, and I wrote up three super quick examples of it. And then I thought, heck, since I took the time to write them, maybe I ought to just share them here too in case anyone else...
by Hillary DePiano | May 15, 2014 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I frequently get emails from students who are studying or performing The Love of Three Oranges in school and have some questions. I love to hear from people about the show and I welcome messages of any kind. If you’ve got a question or just want to say Hi,...
by Hillary DePiano | May 13, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
The Love of Three Oranges opened this weekend at R.A. Long High School in Longview, WA (it also runs May 16-17, with a matinee at 2 p.m. May 17 if you’re in the area but busy this weekend) and two reviews of their production have already gone to press. I wanted...
by Hillary DePiano | May 2, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
I split my April Camp NaNoWriMo desperately trying to finish this never-ending nightmare and polishing this. I basically broke every one of my own NaNo rules just to prove that it could still be done and, boom, here I sit having written over 50,000 words this month....
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 30, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, My Writing, Uncategorized
Back on October 4th, I mentioned on Twitter that I was working on a new play. People were very interested for whatever reason and, every time I mentioned the play I got a couple of replies/retweets/favorites so I kept talking about it which I never really do on...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 29, 2014 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Back in 2006 I wrote a book called, The Trading Assistant’s Assistant. It was about being an eBay Trading Assistant, as you likely guessed from the title. It sold pretty well for a little while and then eBay totally revamped the TA program and the book became...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
