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 | 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 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...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 27, 2013 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
As we discussed at length last week, Script Frenzy has been cancelled and I was annoyed but I’ve come to peace with it. But when one door closes, another opens and I’m excited to keep the Screnzy alive unofficially through Camp NaNoWriMo. But before we get...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 18, 2013 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
By now most of you will have heard the news but for those that haven’t: Script Frenzy has been cancelled. I promised you back in this post that we’d discuss this more and I haven’t yet because, frankly, the whole thing leaves a terrible taste in my...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
