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 turned out to be a pretty darn good year for writing, oddly enough. Let’s take a...
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If you’ve been waiting for the chance, to buy All The Plays by Hillary DePiano, now’s your chance! Both YouthPLAYS and Playscripts, who between them have 9 of my plays available, are running holiday sales but you gotta be quick to take advantage because both expire very soon! YouthPLAYS Until midnight on November 30th, 2016, you can take...
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Looking for ideas for staging Three Padded Walls? I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have some great productions of my play, Three Padded Walls, and I wanted to share some of these great productions with you. Rather than bombard you with a dozen posts on this, I thought I’d do a single post with all the production photos I have so far. Firstly,...
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My meta suspense drama, Three Padded Walls, is now available through YouthPLAYS. That means they’ve got printable eScripts and bound acting editions (with an extended Q & A session with yours truly I think you’ll enjoy) up for sale as well as a very generous preview that lets you read all but the last few lines of the play for free right...
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“I can’t believe it’s already May,” I said to my husband. “Everything is moving so fast! …Except for the election which is taking FOREVER!” I’m not one to talk politics much online but I will say this: Every election makes me feel like we just need to burn the whole thing down and start over and I think this...
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I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to say anything about this news yet but then I visited the YouthPlays website and, well, just look at it. Not seeing it? Let me do the zoom for you. Whoa! Hey! That’s me! One of many reasons I’m excited that YouthPlays going to be managing this play going forward is that they are very popular with the...
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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.
Random plot generators for writer’s block (& a laugh)
Review: Can 4TheWords, the fantasy game for writers, be used for editing and other off-site writing?
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” ?
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