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 | 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 | 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...
by Hillary DePiano | May 26, 2009 | Announcements, External Stimuli, In Their Words, My Writing, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
So I have been waiting rather (im)patiently for The Author Kindle Edition to show on Amazon which it should be doing any moment now and I am not afraid to admit that I was doing a little bit of obsessive refreshing of the Amazon search results with the vigor of a 3...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 17, 2007 | In Their Words, Uncategorized
One positively must not wear a pleased expression on his countenance when confronted with that large lizard like amphibious reptile who has long jaws armored skin and webbed feet and who is known as the crocodile. It has been discovered that one simply cannot cherish...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 6, 2006 | Evergreen, External Stimuli, In Their Words, Personally...
“It’s really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space–that’s the way life was meant to be. You’re supposed to be too late for some things....
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
