by Hillary DePiano | Jan 8, 2015 | Asplode, Mistress Novel, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, The Muppet Play, Wife Novel, Word Count Updates and Writing Goals
I have created a very simple and very effective writing motivator. It’s a spreadsheet in which I’ve listed every one of my works in progress. This ranges from finished and published works to ideas I’ve only just started to jot down notes for....
by Hillary DePiano | Aug 25, 2012 | On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, The Muppet Play
While I already told you about my most frequent typo when I’m writing dialog, there’s another typo that I make all the time that’s even more dangerous. Just about every time a character in one of my plays leaves the stage, I write exists instead of...
by Hillary DePiano | May 1, 2012 | My Writing, The Muppet Play, TheLibrary, Weak Days
One of the strangest things about these month long writing challenges like NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy is how, at the end of the month, you find yourself simultaneously completely sick of it and keen to get your normal life back and a little sad to see it go....
by Hillary DePiano | Apr 6, 2012 | External Stimuli, My Writing, Personally..., The Muppet Play
So, my failing health aside, you wonder, how are things? I haven’t written a personal post in a while because, frankly, I’ve been mostly miserable and who wants to hear me whine? Nobody. But you know I’m sick so there’s no point on dwelling on...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 13, 2012 | Daddy Issues, The Muppet Play, TheLibrary, Works in Progress
Over the summer, I took a playwriting class. One week, for our assignment, I handed in a scene from The Muppet Play which happens to take place in a subway car. The instructor praised this scene as being an unusual setting, one you didn’t often see in plays,...
by Hillary DePiano | Jan 1, 2012 | Asplode, Mistress Novel, On Writing: Craft and Commiseration, The Muppet Play, TheLibrary, Wife Novel
Last year, I took an in depth look into my writing habits (see Looking back on past writing goals and tweaking them for the future) and, without repeating myself, I think my tweaks were good. I passed 400,000 words for the year late on 12/30 which was later 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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