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Working with your weirdness

Working with your weirdness

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 21, 2025 | Evergreen, Living the Writing Life, Personally...

One of the reasons I’m such a big fan of keeping records and analyzing how you work is you realize two things. The first is that we’ve all got our little quirks and you’ll almost immediately start to recognize patterns that amount to Your Individual...
End of Year Odds ‘n Ends

End of Year Odds ‘n Ends

by Hillary DePiano | Dec 30, 2024 | Announcements, Living the Writing Life, Personally...

The relentless passage of time bringing anyone else down? Somehow, we have zoomed to the end of another year, one in which I have been lax at blogging. This is partly because I have been super busy with classes and workshops and new plays that we will discuss in...
On Writing & COVID (& Camp NaNoWriMo)

On Writing & COVID (& Camp NaNoWriMo)

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 31, 2020 | Living the Writing Life, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), Personally...

About a week ago, you couldn’t go online without someone reminding you that Shakespeare wrote King Lear during quarantine so you have no excuse not to write that novel now! And then somehow we’ve gone full circle from that to people saying that if you ARE...
Status update (and a Kindle Countdown deal)

Status update (and a Kindle Countdown deal)

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 16, 2020 | Announcements, My Writing, Personally...

So, um, how’s everyone holding up out there? Very… interesting times we’re living in, no? Anyone else just, like, completely cracked out on fear and uncertainty right now? My oldest is still in school but they switch to “online learning”...
My 2019 New Year’s Write-olutions

My 2019 New Year’s Write-olutions

by Hillary DePiano | Jan 1, 2019 | Living the Writing Life, Personally..., Uncategorized

I am usually an adjustable person when it comes to change but the new WordPress compose window is such a nightmare, I’m actually going to keep this somewhat short literally just so I don’t have to deal with it for more than I have to. I’ve said...

I’m in the market for a new desk lamp. Preferable one that doesn’t randomly burst into flame.

by Hillary DePiano | Mar 12, 2018 | External Stimuli, Personally...

I’ve been using the same desk lamp since middle school. It’s the world’s most generic black desk lamp with little cubbies on the bottom for paper clips and mouse skulls or whatever people keep in there. I’ve used it this long because it’s...
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Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
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