by Hillary DePiano | Feb 20, 2014 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)
NaNoWriMo’s been over for almost 3 full months now and many of you haven’t even touched your novel since then. In fact, that’s one of the biggest complaints NaNo participants have. Once the inspiration and frenzy of NaNoWriMo is over, how do you make...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 11, 2014 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
There’s a rule you’ll see over and over again in script writing that states that one page of script is about 1 minute of stage or screen time. You’re told that a 30 minute play should be 30 pages or a 90 minute movie would be a 90 page script. But...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 4, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
As I discussed over here, I completely redid my writing goals for 2014. A couple of people have asked me to explain my new system (and I know that other post is mad long) so here’s the TL; DR version. Instead of just setting a single total work count goal for...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2014 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
Pre-motherhood, it was not uncommon for me to work well over 40 hours a week. I tried to devote at least 40 to my money making activities and then leave myself a couple dozen hours for writing. (OK, yes, some of my day job work is also writing. But I tend to think of...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 9, 2014 | Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Write every day. That’s the mantra you hear from just about every writing adviser online and off. And I agree that writing every day can be incredibly helpful to your productivity and creativity. It would be ideal if we could all write every day… but...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 7, 2014 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Uncategorized
I just love it and had to share. The Love of Three Oranges By Ryan Yamaguchi on December 5, 2013 “The Love of Three Oranges” by Hillary De Piano is described as a “fairy tale on crack.” It consists of many puns and is interactive with the audience. This play is a...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
