In a few days, we’ll be celebrating New Year’s Eve 2019 which marks not just the end of the year but also the decade. Social media has been abuzz for weeks with the twin takes of “Make a list of what you accomplished in the last 10 years!” and “Listing your accomplishments is Bad, Actually, and will make you feel terrible so...
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You know what the problem is with becoming organized and efficient? I really miss being able to write about whatever random thing I felt like it. Sure, I wasn’t getting anything accomplished that way and I wasn’t moving towards my goals effectively in a big picture sense but, man, I felt free! If I wanted to write a random blog post about how...
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While I never officially announced anything, some of you glimpsed the phrase “NaNoWriMo book” on my project list in this picture and I wanted to explain what that was about. I’ve written a ludicrous amount of content about NaNoWriMo over the years. Lots of pep talks, lots of explanatory articles about the event itself, lots of tips on...
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Who doesn’t like free books? There’s a 50-100% discount on a bunch of my books and plays going on as part of Smashwords’ big sale and I realized I never publicized it over here. The sale only runs until the end of July so get over there now and take advantage before time runs out! Promo codes and exactly what’s for sale are...
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We’re right at the mid-point of 2015 so now seems like as good a time as any for a big State of the Writer post. The halfway point of the year always sneaks up on me. I truly can’t believe that it’s already July! I’m going to bold what each paragraph is about so that skimmers can easily find just the updates they care about. This...
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Isn’t it weird how much writing itself can get in the way of a career as a writer? I missed two weeks of blogging in there without even realizing it just because there was so much going on. Here’s a quick recap of some of the biggest things that happened so far this month… I have a brand new play, Three Padded Walls, a drama I originally...
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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.
One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.
50,000 words of Lorem Ipsum for copy and paste NaNoWriMo winner verification
Daddy Issues’ dramatic female monologue for auditions or competition
Who said “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain” ?
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