by Hillary DePiano | Nov 4, 2022 | National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
What is the NaNoWriMo Global Write-In Crawl (GWIC)? TL; DR: The Global Write-In Crawl (GWIC) is an international, volunteer-run event held over the chat app Discord where writers from all over the world are invited to socialize and participate in “stops”...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 17, 2022 | 4TheWords
4TheWords is a fun and productive writing game that I’ve been playing since May 2018 and highly recommend. It gamifies writing, making the process of building a writing habit fun with an RPG style fantasy game where you defeat monsters, craft items and progress...
by Hillary DePiano | Sep 3, 2021 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Playwriting, Published
Long time no chat! I’m still on my hiatus from social media but I want to pop in with some exciting news! My first play specifically for elementary school aged performers and up, The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Storm, is now available exclusively through...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 7, 2020 | Evergreen, My Writing, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)
I know that some of you out there are as obsessive as me when it comes to trying to figure out how far along you are in National Novel Writing Month so I decided to share my personal calculator. It’s simple but powerful. This calculator will work in Open Office,...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 24, 2020 | Evergreen, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Pentamerone (Tale of Tales), The Myrtle
It’s actually a complete coincidence that The Myrtle, my romantic comedy about a tree that comes to life, is coming out on Arbor Day but it’s too perfect so I’m certainly not mad about it! Check it out today in eBook and Paperback wherever such...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 17, 2020 | Evergreen, Goosed, Pentamerone (Tale of Tales), Playwriting
Whenever I adapt something, people always ask me what it was that I loved about the original that made me adapt it and, 9 times out of 10, I don’t adapt something because I love it but rather because I absolutely hate it and want to fix it. But this was not the...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.
Synopsis & plot summary for Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird, as adapted by Hillary DePiano
Who said “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain” ?
50,000 words of Lorem Ipsum for copy and paste NaNoWriMo winner verification
The Green Bird by Hillary DePiano a modern full length stage play adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte classic
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