by Hillary DePiano | Mar 14, 2012 | Announcements, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
I know, I know. So many blog posts this week. I’m trying to get all my Screnzy posts up early so that they get shared and retweeted both before and during Script Frenzy. There is a method to my madness, I swear. Anyway, I wanted to let you know about a talk...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 13, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
Do you guys smell that? It smells like… coffee… unwashed writers and… popcorn? This can only mean one thing! Script Frenzy is coming. But my enthusiastic countdown to Screnzy excitement is tempered by this sad fact: The Office of Letters and Light...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 12, 2012 | NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
There’s something familiar about prose. We’ve all read at least a book or two in our lives and we understand generally how words flow together in a story. There’s also something comfortingly self-contained about writing a book or story. We write it...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 10, 2012 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
We’ve all got that story that we haven’t been able to get quite right yet. Maybe it’s a novel that stalled out so you never finished it. Maybe it’s a short story that just isn’t working no matter how many revisions you do. Maybe...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 8, 2012 | Announcements, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Playwriting and Theatre
One of the most frequent questions I get about Script Frenzy boils down to this: OK, maybe I’m willing to go out of my comfort zone and try writing a script but what would I do with it once I finished? If you’re one of those people who are thinking this, I...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 7, 2012 | External Stimuli, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
OK, a little background. Over on the Script Frenzy site, some of us NaNoWriMo alumni were talking about Screnzy and what it’s like being a veteran of both. nature-elf aka Melinda Chen mentioned that she was originally reluctant to try Script Frenzy because it...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
