by Hillary DePiano | Feb 3, 2015 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Daddy Issues, My Writing, New Year's Thieve, Polar Twilight, Published, Sell Their Stuff, The Author, The Love of Three Oranges, The Seller Ledger
I set up a mailing list a long time ago but I’ve never really pushed it here on the blog for a variety of reasons not worth going into. But exciting thing are happening at Burger King, as they say (OK, fine, no one but me says that but still) and it’s time...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 15, 2015 | Clone Rocker, Evergreen, M5, New Year's Thieve, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Polar Twilight
My brain works in mysterious, often not particularly mainstream, ways. Every year, with NaNoWriMo, I sit down with the other writers and, when someone inevitably asks me what I’m writing, I get a response best described as, “Haha, very funny. What are you...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 26, 2014 | Mistress Novel, New Year's Thieve, Polar Twilight, WoC, Word Count Updates and Writing Goals
My plan for this month was simple. I was determined to finish the rewrite of Mistress Novel, getting all the scenes I rewrote together and figuring out what still needed to be written before I started the final polishing of this version. Simple enough, I thought, and...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 20, 2014 | Polar Twilight, The Love of Three Oranges
Schools and other armature groups, I’ve got some great news for you! So many of you want to film your stage production of The Love of Three Oranges or Polar Twilight just to have an archival copy for your cast and crew. You would never do anything illegal like...
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 14, 2014 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, New Year's Thieve, Polar Twilight
Christmas in July… er, August! Planning your holiday show? Consider Polar Twilight, a Christmas show with a bite. #ifyouknowwhatImean Here’s the thing. Playscripts did this big Christmas in July promotional push and was tweeting links out to all their...
by Hillary DePiano | Jul 1, 2014 | External Stimuli, Mistress Novel, My Writing, New Year's Thieve, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally..., Polar Twilight, The Fourth Orange, The Love of Three Oranges, The Trading Assistant's Assistant
Tomorrow is the exact middle of the year. That just blows my mind because it does NOT feel like we are halfway through this year and also fills me with panic. There’s so much I wanted to do this year and, while I have gotten a lot done, there have been several...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
Everything you know about Santa Claus is wrong and the truth kind of sucks... 
One page of a script equals one minute of stage time? It depends on your script.
On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post
Who said “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain” ?
Should you write by hand? Handwriting pros and cons
Review: Can 4TheWords, the fantasy game for writers, be used for editing and other off-site writing?
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