by Hillary DePiano | Mar 25, 2014 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
At this point in the year, us NaNoWriMo alumni are all in very different places in our writing life. Some of you are undertaking my Editing Challenge and working towards getting that novel you wrote during NaNoWriMo ready for the world. Others are still finishing...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 20, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
I just found out at this production of The Love of Three Oranges happening in Santa Ynez, California this weekend and I just had to share their poster with you because, well, look at it… Do you not love Ace the royal cat in the bottom right corner? I died of...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 18, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
I mentioned the Longwood University production of The Love of Three Oranges here and here but when Brian pointed me to the trailer they made for their production, it was just too awesome not to share! (If the embed doesn’t work, here’s the direct link:...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 4, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I completely changed how I keep track of my writing goals this year to something that very specifically fit my needs this year and you can read about that here and here. But before that I had a more general system for keeping track of my writing, editing and various...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 27, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
To recap, this year I completely changed my yearly writing goal up making it harder (as only certain writing counted) and adding percentage based benchmarks to dictate what I had to work on. While there are a variety of smaller goals within this number, I set a goal...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 25, 2014 | My Writing, Uncategorized
I know. We’ve covered this before. But for some reason this misconception keeps coming up and it drives me batty. Take this line from The Rotunda’s review of Longwood University’s production of The Love of Three Oranges: In the style of “commedia...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
