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 | Nov 13, 2014 | Clone Rocker, My Writing
I was in a NaNoWriMo write-in last night when, suddenly, my novel ended. We were doing a word sprint and I couldn’t think of what scene came next (because, while I didn’t outline, I did formulate a list of scenes I thought might appear somewhere just to...
by Hillary DePiano | Nov 11, 2014 | Clone Rocker, My Writing, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I don’t know how to write this blog post without sounding like a jerk but here goes. I’m ahead on NaNoWriMo. Like, really ahead. And this is going to sound like bragging but it’s really just a statement of fact: I’m ahead and I’m not even...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 24, 2014 | Clone Rocker, Evergreen, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I’m so excited. I can’t wait to start my NaNoWriMo novel. I want to be writing it RIGHT NOW! Usually, when people complain about having to wait to start their NaNoWriMo novels, I point them to this post and all the reasons I recommend just going ahead and...
by Hillary DePiano | Oct 6, 2014 | Clone Rocker, External Stimuli, Mistress Novel, My Writing
One of the strangest pregnancy side effect is weird dreams. Like, dreams so vivid and dark that your doctor actually warns you about them ahead of time so you don’t think you’ve gone completely insane. So, like, next level weird. Yeah, that’s a...
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.
Who said “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain” ?
Synopsis & plot summary for Carlo Gozzi’s The Green Bird, as adapted by Hillary DePiano
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The Green Bird by Hillary DePiano a modern full length stage play adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte classic
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