by Hillary DePiano | Sep 3, 2013 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
People often ask how different writing prose is from stage plays and, to me, the biggest difference is what happens once they are finished. Whenever you finish any writing and publish it, it goes out into the world without you and that’s always a strange...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 9, 2013 | Announcements, My Writing, Uncategorized
The 2013-2014 Playscripts Catalog will be coming to a subscriber’s mailbox near you soon but, in the meantime, you can grab an electronic copy right now here. Though Polar Twilight was actually released before the 2012-2013 catalog was released, it was out just...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 30, 2013 | Living the Writing Life, Personally...
I’m writing this on Friday night (7/26) but I’m going to schedule it to post on next Tuesday. Why? Because, as I write this, I am at 9,117 words for July out of my Half NaNo aka my 25,000 goal for July. That’s 36% of my goal so it’s not like I...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 22, 2013 | External Stimuli, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
The little one was born in December. Between the fact that you need to limit a newborn’s exposure to public spaces and the fact that I couldn’t drive, we were stuck inside for most of the first three months of the year. Beyond driving around, it was also...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 17, 2013 | My Writing, Uncategorized
While it was sort of random that my Christmas play, Polar Twilight, was published in the middle of the summer, I will never forget its publication date. That’s because today is also my parent’s wedding anniversary! They were married on 7/17/71… How...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 13, 2013 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
People always ask me how I find time to blog so regularly in between everything else I do and I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t blog regularly at all. I blog very sporadically and I just make my various blogs seem like they have a regular posting...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
