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How Building a Consistent Writing Habit Can Chaos Proof Your Writing Life

How Building a Consistent Writing Habit Can Chaos Proof Your Writing Life

by Hillary DePiano | Apr 30, 2017 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

Despite the fact that life with a new baby is chaos and we’ve got the multipliers of a preschooler and having just moved to monkey wrench the whole dealie, I feel like I’m doing much better than I did after my first daughter was born. Not just from a...
Finding beta readers & getting reader feedback on your stage play script with #TAPT & #POFF

Finding beta readers & getting reader feedback on your stage play script with #TAPT & #POFF

by Hillary DePiano | Apr 24, 2017 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

You’ve written a play and you’d really like another set of eyes on it to make sure it’s working as intended. But while beta readers for fiction works, such as novels and short stories, are fairly easy to come by, most writing forums and critique...
How I Wrote The Green Bird (full length stage play adaptation & one act version)

How I Wrote The Green Bird (full length stage play adaptation & one act version)

by Hillary DePiano | Sep 20, 2016 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre

Novelists have been doing this sort of post for a while, an all-in-one debrief on exactly how they wrote one of their books day by day (here’s one example and another but there are many out there), but it hasn’t caught on yet in the playwriting community....
Quickie answering some reader questions on my Self-Publishing a Stage Play series

Quickie answering some reader questions on my Self-Publishing a Stage Play series

by Hillary DePiano | May 24, 2016 | Playwriting and Theatre

Here’s a super quickie continuing my Self-Publishing a Stage Play series. This is a question I got from a reader and I’m sharing what I replied. Remember, you can read all the other posts in this series by clicking on the series title box just above this...
A Playwriting Parent Reviews: Action! Writing Your Own Play by Nancy Loewen

A Playwriting Parent Reviews: Action! Writing Your Own Play by Nancy Loewen

by Hillary DePiano | May 21, 2016 | Evergreen, Playwriting and Theatre

As both a playwright and a parent, it delighted me when my daughter starting integrating playwriting into her games. She’s always telling me about the play she’s writing and every keyboard is an opportunity for her to work on “her script”...
Can you give your play a wider retail footprint if it’s already traditionally published?

Can you give your play a wider retail footprint if it’s already traditionally published?

by Hillary DePiano | May 10, 2016 | Evergreen, Playwriting and Theatre

Self-publishing a play can be a good idea and I covered a bunch of questions on that over in this big post. But I’ve since gotten some follow up questions to that big post and wanted to make a little series of the answers. One of the things I cover in that big...
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