by Hillary DePiano | Jun 16, 2015 | Evergreen, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
One very simple writing tool I recently added to the mix was a dry erase board next to my computer monitor that’s a priority list of all my projects. The board used to be a list of every project I wanted to write someday and it took me until recently to realize...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 9, 2015 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
Working on The Green Bird and my brain sidles up to me, “Forget this one, baby. I’ve got a better idea.” “Not now. I’m finishing this first.” “How about this: We write a whole play in Fakespeare!” “Go away.”...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 28, 2015 | My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
Click the image above to see the rest of the posts in the series On a playwrighting group I belong to on Facebook, someone asked if anyone had an experience with self-publishing plays. I replied about how I had I self-published The Love of Three Oranges, racked up a...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 17, 2015 | Announcements, Playwriting and Theatre
Weak Days a comedy in one-act by Hillary DePiano 6-7 Gender Neutral roles Run Time: 40 – 45 minutes We’ve all got our routines. It’s comfortable, doing the same thing every day. But when something makes you stop and really look at your life, you may find...
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 | May 19, 2013 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, Playwriting and Theatre
I’m not going to lie to you guys, I wrote a sequel to Guys and Dolls in high school. It will never see the light of day because it’s terrible but I wrote it because I wanted to see more of those characters and see where they ended up after the curtain fell. I guess...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
