by Hillary DePiano | Jul 18, 2011 | In Their Words, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Playwriting and Theatre
“Revision is when you first get to recognize the distance between what you wanted to write, what you thought you were writing, and what you actually did write. That recognition often makes you want to throw up.” -Carolyn See Let’s say you are listening to the...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 5, 2011 | External Stimuli, In Their Words, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Uncategorized
“The day I start a book 200 other people start books. And they’re smarter, and funnier, and more talented than I am, and you would enjoy them much more than you’re enjoying me. But too bad for them and too bad for you, ’cause I’m the guy...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 28, 2010 | Announcements, Evergreen, In Their Words, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I wanted to take a moment to highlight this fantastic tweet from Anita Doreen Diggs. You can follow her on Twitter here @AnitaDiggs Finish your proposal (nonfiction) or manuscript (fiction) before worrying about agents, Kindles, e-books, the book tour, etc. There is...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 25, 2009 | In Their Words, Living the Writing Life
. . . and sometimes you have more ideas than you have time to write down! Psyched you out there, didn’t I? You thought I was going to write about writer’s block.”Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 7, 2009 | Announcements, In Their Words
A reader of The She-Ra Collector’s Inventory emailed me today for some help. Here is her email: Hi I was wondering if you could give me some info to help me authenticate a Spinnerella doll I have bought from ebay. I want to make sure it is the genuine article as...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 29, 2009 | Announcements, In Their Words, Living the Writing Life, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Writing Advice and Resources
Last year, leading up to NaNoWriMo, I did a series of posts covering what I learned about writing from doing the contest the year prior. Here is a reprint of that entire series all as a single post. What I learned about writing from NaNoWriMo . . . If you have never...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
