by Hillary DePiano | Jun 26, 2014 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, Personally...
“Traditionally, Hilary was the form used for males and Hillary for females, but since there are so few boy Hilarys these days, that tradition has fallen by the wayside.” -Nameberry page for Hillary I was extremely excited to see this little note because I...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 12, 2014 | External Stimuli, Personally...
New parents don’t get any sleep. That’s the cliché, right? Because newborns wake up every 4 hours to be fed or sometimes more often than that because they are babies and why shouldn’t I be awake right now, human slaves? Serve me! Look how cute I am,...
by Hillary DePiano | May 6, 2014 | External Stimuli, Personally...
This Saturday, I dragged my husband to the US premiere of I Am Big Bird, a documentary about Carrol Spinney, the man behind Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. The film itself is fantastic and not in wide release so, if you hear about the chance to see it, take it! You...
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 22, 2014 | External Stimuli, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
I’ve written 128,680Â words so far this year. Considering my goal was to write 200,000 words total by the end of the year, I would say that’s pretty impressive. Needless to say, I bumped my goal up to 300,000 and added a new little line on my insane...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 27, 2014 | External Stimuli, Personally...
Something just happened to the little one and I that was wrong and ridiculous and made me so angry I was shaking. The one thing that I kept focusing on afterwards as I stayed cool and upbeat for my daughter was my inner mantra of “I am SO blogging about...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2014 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
Pre-motherhood, it was not uncommon for me to work well over 40 hours a week. I tried to devote at least 40 to my money making activities and then leave myself a couple dozen hours for writing. (OK, yes, some of my day job work is also writing. But I tend to think of...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
