by Hillary DePiano | Jul 10, 2017 | Mummy Witch House, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Pentamerone (Tale of Tales), The Fourth Orange, Word Count Updates and Writing Goals
Time is absolutely rocketing by and it is unacceptable. Baby is getting all big and stuff which is very rude when I want her to stay tiny and snuggly forever. But she said, “Mama” a week ago so I forgive her. The other one said just about every word in the...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 27, 2017 | Evergreen, Mummy Witch House, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I have a brand new play, The (Completely Inaccurate) Legend of the Mummy Witch House, which has just officially been published by Playscripts. You can read the play for free*, purchase scripts or license productions here. It’s a short, very silly,...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 28, 2017 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Mummy Witch House
The best scary stories are the ones that are at least partly true… (This isn’t one of those stories.) Coming Spring 2017 I’ve got a brand new short comedy to share with you this spring in a super spooky collection from one of your favorite play...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 6, 2017 | Mummy Witch House, Word Count Updates and Writing Goals
Welcome to another exciting update in which stuff is going on! Apparently we just blew through a whole month without my noticing which would worry me more if I wasn’t knee deep in the hoopla as those kids from Starship say (and by kids, I mean, probably senior...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 1, 2017 | Evergreen, NaNo What Now?, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
It’s a brand new year which means it’s the traditional time of setting new goals and resolutions for the year ahead. For us writers, that can mean setting deadlines or striving for new writing habits in the coming year. I think taking a few minutes to...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 23, 2016 | Masks, NaNo What Now?, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Pentamerone (Tale of Tales), The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Now New and Improved, The Fourth Orange, The Green Bird, The Love of Three Oranges, The She Bear, Three Padded Walls, Vardiello, WoC, Word Count Updates and Writing Goals
2016 was a crap sandwich for just about everyone and I’m no exception. It was a crazy stressful year full of unexpected changes and pressures and so much of the future is still uncertain. But while 2016 felt like a big fat fail as I was living it, it actually...
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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