by Hillary DePiano | Oct 31, 2013 | Evergreen, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
(No time to read this? There’s a video/audio version here.) “Best of luck with your novel!” “Good luck with NaNoWriMo this year!” “Sorry you didn’t win last year but hopefully you’ll have better luck this year.”...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 29, 2013 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Guys, I’ve been having a problem. A NaNoWriMo problem. See, I love NaNoWriMo. You know this. I love it so much that I became an ML and I donate MANY hours of my very little, precious time to bringing others the best NaNoWriMo experience that I can. I love being...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 21, 2013 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
It’s been a wild couple of weeks here in Babytown and work time has been hard to come by. So, for that matter, have been brain cells so I haven’t exactly been on my A game. But we’ve had a couple of days of calm so I’m taking the luxury of...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 4, 2013 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
A few years ago, my father was multiple books into a series before he realized the main character was black. Shortly thereafter, I was reading a book and didn’t realize until halfway through it that the main character was female. When I told my dad about my this...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 27, 2013 | My Writing, Uncategorized
Just a quick addendum to this post. As I mentioned, there have now been over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges since I wrote it in 2002. But nearly productions did multiple performances of the show during their run so you may be wondering, how many...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 13, 2013 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
Me: This book is depressing me. Long Suffering Husband: What’s it about? Me: It’s not what it’s about that’s the problem. It’s how well it’s written. I’ve heard people talk about getting intimidated by really good writing but...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
