by Hillary DePiano | Feb 27, 2018 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Now New and Improved
Remember all those annoying books they made you read in high school? Well, they’re getting the roast they deserve in this new collection from YouthPLAYS called Lit on Fire! Full of funny shorts for classrooms, competitions and forensics, the plays can also be...
by Hillary DePiano | Dec 27, 2017 | Goosed, Mummy Witch House, Pentamerone (Tale of Tales), The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Now New and Improved, The Fourth Orange, The King Stag, The Myrtle, WoC, Word Count Updates and Writing Goals
As 2017 draws to a close, let’s take a look at how my year in writing went. I’m going to try to keep this short. I’ll fail, mind you, but that effort surely counts for something, no? For more details on any of this, you can see my whole writing year...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 4, 2017 | Pentamerone (Tale of Tales), Personally..., The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Now New and Improved, Word Count Updates and Writing Goals
Here’s what September 2017 looked like in writing… Total Words Written This Month 31,753 words Average Words Per Day 1,058 words Monthly Goal didn’t set one Yearly Goal 477,587 / 500,000 (96%) Things completed: did an abridged version of Pintosmalto aka Arm Candy for...
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...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 30, 2016 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally..., The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Now New and Improved
Here’s what November 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 765,239/600,000 words (128%) <- we’ll discuss this at length in a future post Monthly Goal My original goal was to pass last year’s count of 117,716 but then I was like, haha, are you DAFT,...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 30, 2016 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, The Complete Novels of Jane Austen Now New and Improved
What happens when you take Jane Austen’s six classic novels and mix them up with nine of the most popular genres of today? With anywhere from two to a dozen or more actors running around wildly playing all the parts? And then do the whole mess in less time than...
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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