by Hillary DePiano | Feb 20, 2020 | Evergreen, Mistress Novel, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Personally...
Happy new years, friends! Is it just me or has this year simultaneously been flying by and also felt it’s already been at least five years long? Have you managed to wrap your head around the whole 2020 thing yet? I still can’t write it without feeling like I...
by Hillary DePiano | Jun 2, 2016 | Mistress Novel, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, Pentamerone (Tale of Tales), The Fourth Orange, The Green Bird, WoC
May flew by. Flew! And yet my concept of time is so tenuous that yesterday I asked my husband if the Fourth of July fireworks were this weekend so somehow I forgot June was a thing? My brain is a mystery. I have no idea if any of you find these little monthly recaps...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 5, 2015 | Evergreen, Mistress Novel, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
The most useful writing advice and I literally can’t remember where I heard it. But the idea behind it is to leave it all on the table. To put all your best stuff into this book and don’t save anything for mythical future books that may never exist. I took...
by Hillary DePiano | Mar 3, 2015 | Evergreen, Mistress Novel, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I took a break from rewriting my novel. I’d thought I had it after experimenting and started moving forward with my rewrite again. I actually got to that same third of the way point from the last draft and started to suspect that, though I’d made a bunch...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 26, 2015 | Evergreen, Mistress Novel, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
You need to rewrite your novel but you’re at a loss of where to start. I’ve been there and I’m sharing what helped me to toss my original version and reinvent my book fresh. The Brute Force method didn’t work. I needed to shake things up and...
by Hillary DePiano | Feb 24, 2015 | Mistress Novel, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration
I recently scrapped a polished, praised “finished” draft and completely rewrote it from scratch. I found almost no articles to help with this kind of extensive rewrite despite the fact that it has to be more common than anyone would admit. Surely I am not...
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
