Hillary DePiano

Reminder that this class is starting up tomorrow: Setting Yourself Up for Writing Success: Preparing to Write a Book at Romance Writers Online bit.ly/3M6QBb4 #writingworkshop #amwriting #writingcommunity #writing

Setting Yourself Up for Writing Success: Preparing to Write a Book [Forums Workshop] @ RWO from February 2 - February 27 - Hillary DePiano Setting Yourself Up for Writing Success: Preparing to Write a Book Presenter: Hillary DePiano 4 Weeks February 2 – 27, 2026 $30 (Free for RWO General Members) Forum Workshop Overview […]

ICYMI: Setting Yourself Up for Writing Success: Preparing to Write a Book [Forums Workshop] @ RWO from February 2 – February 27

Setting Yourself Up for Writing Success: Preparing to Write a Book [Forums Workshop] @ RWO from February 2 – February 27 Setting Yourself Up for Writing Success: Preparing to Write a Book Presenter: Hillary DePiano 4 Weeks February 2 - 27, 2026 $30 (Free for RWO General Members) Forum Workshop Overview This is it. You’re finally ready to start writing that book you know you’ve got inside you. But where do you start? Join author Hillary DePiano for a crash course in novel prep.

I'm offering an extremely sexy deal with this class: if you actually participate, I'll give you a free copy of my upcoming book about how to prep a novel! #amwriting #writingworkshop #writing #writingcommunity

Hillary DePiano | Concord Theatricals Hillary DePiano is a playwright and author of fiction and non-fiction, best known for her adaptations of Carlo Gozzi's The Love of Three Oranges and The Green Bird, which have been performed in…

Plays by Hillary DePiano at Concord Theatricals

2 Week Workshop Jan 19 to Feb 1, 2026 Unlock the Power of Action and Reaction: Understanding Scene and Sequel Presented by Hillary DePiano Hosted by SavvyAuthors.com

4 Week Workshop Feb 2 - Feb 27, 2026 Setting Yourself Up for Writing Success Preparing to Write a Book Presented by Hillary DePiano Hosted by RomanceWritersOnline.org

Here's what I'm teaching in the next few weeks! 👀 #writingworkshops #writing #amwiting #writingcommunity

Unlock the Power of Action and Reaction (Understanding Scene and Sequel) [2-Week Forum Workshop] starting Jan 19th at SavvyAuthors - Hillary DePiano Class Length 2 Weeks Beginner writers all suffer the same challenges: passive characters, uneven pacing, meandering plot and the dreaded “Happy People in Happyland.” Readers crave active protagonists,...

ICYMI: Unlock the Power of Action and Reaction (Understanding Scene and Sequel) [2-Week Forum Workshop] starting Jan 19th at SavvyAuthors

Unlock the Power of Action and Reaction (Understanding Scene and Sequel) [2-Week Forum Workshop] starting Jan 19th at SavvyAuthors SavvyAuthors Subscriber Member Pricing: $26.25 Basic Member Pricing: $30.00 Class Length 2 Weeks Beginner writers all suffer the same challenges: passive characters, uneven pacing, meandering plot and the dreaded “Happy People in Happyland.” Readers crave active protagonists, characters who chase their goals and drive the story forward with the choices they make in the face of adversity. Non-stop action can be just as boring as a story where nothing happens.

This scene & sequel class was born when I was a student in someone else's writing class and talking about how I use S&S and a fellow student asked if I could be their writing coach which made me feel like, "Oh, haha should I be teaching this?" #amwriting #writingworkshop #writing #writingcommunity

Writing Workshops | Hillary DePiano SavvyAuthors Subscriber Member Pricing: $26.25 Basic Member Pricing: $30.00 Class Length 2 Weeks Beginner writers all suffer the same challenges:...

I got to enjoy about twenty minutes my Writing Workshops page being completely up to date before someone contacted me to book another class 😅

Upcoming Writing Workshops: 2026 Teaching Schedule - Hillary DePiano The new year is barely a few days old but I’ve already got a whole slate of classes lined up for 2026 that I can’t wait to share with you! […]

ICYMI: Upcoming Writing Workshops: 2026 Teaching Schedule

Upcoming Writing Workshops: 2026 Teaching Schedule The new year is barely a few days old but I've already got a whole slate of classes lined up for 2026 that I can't wait to share with you! We've got lots of brand new classes I've never taught before coming up (and some I've only ever taught in person and never online) and I think you'll find a lot of great stuff.

Here's a sneak peak of all my upcoming #writingworkshops, both text based and on zoom! #writing #writingcommunity

So I have a new mailing list I'm looking to start. I've seen many posts about how #substack is controversial, bad, cancelled we all hate it, etc but suddenly a couple of writer friends just switched TO substack this year so I am confused. Did public opinion shift on that and I missed it or..?

a red original Mini Cooper parked between two Tesla Cybertrucks

my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)

there is a tiny voice inside me that still feels like it was crazy to throw away 5k followers and decades of presence on the site bc of discover / reach / etc but if they're still on Twitter in 2025 they don't deserve to find me at this point 😅

The final straw was logging on to see what it would take to delete all my tweets and the site wouldn't even LOAD because there are so many trackers now and I had this moment of why am I bothering to do this exactly? and pulled the trigger

Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page.

I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.

Now, to be clear, fuck this.

But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.

I spent so long weighing whether it was worth it to delete all my tweets but keep my Twitter account up just in case people wanted to find me there / because I had so many followers and finally decided my christmas present to myself is freedom

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one

Events - Hillary DePiano Beginner writers all suffer the same challenges: passive characters, uneven pacing, meandering plot and the dreaded “Happy People in Happyland.”...

Starting to get my 2026 Writing Workshops up on my website but I'm still waiting on at least three more dates to be confirmed. Here's a sneak peek in the meantime: buff.ly/fNDNZFM #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky #writing #writers

"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"

I'll bet the reason AI writes Like That is training prioritized text that search engines weighted higher aka SEO optimized blog posts/pages. That's exactly where you see that repetitive redundancy with hitting the same keywords over and over. 

After all, what was the easiest text for them to take?

two spider-man are sitting next to each other on a rock and talking to each other . ALT: two spider-man are sitting next to each other on a rock and talking to each other .

the tween has been having writing difficulties and was watching me drink tea while I wrote and then asked for her own cup of tea despite never drinking it before and it felt like 😂

Are you getting enough Whine in your diet? - The Whine Seller For a long time, The Whine Seller mailing list was just a sub-section of my fiction mailing list but we’ve been outgrowing that for a while now. As part of the great untangling of my online life, I...

ICYMI: Are you getting enough Whine in your diet?

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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

I see it's the seasonal argument about why piracy to fuck over Amazon and publishers is okay while many authors live below the poverty line.

Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

if it would be somehow useful for me to write this up as a blog post, lmk and I will do it tomorrow

What's great about it is you can have as many tabs as you want based on search queries for categories, keywords or labels instead of just the handful of somewhat useless ones Gmail offers and all without the extension reading your emails or feeding it to AI

PSA: Seeing people lamenting that you lose the tabbed inbox in Gmail if you shut off the Smart Features (which is the only way to opt out of the AI scraping) but there is a Firefox extension called Inbox Zero that gives you an even more powerful / customizable tabbed inbox you can replace it with