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What’s different in Hillary DePiano’s adaptation of The Green Bird vs Carlo Gozzi’s commedia dell’arte original

While my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges stayed fairly close to the original (outside of everything related to the whole Narrator/Celio thing which was all me, baby), my adaptation of The Green Bird is fairly different from Carlo Gozzi’s original. While obviously every line of dialog was rewritten from scratch, I worked hard to make sure just about every plot elementfrom the originalwas still there in some form so that the play was still recognizably itself but I changed the sequence...

Paying your clients their share of your Selling Assistant sales

Sell Their Stuff: How does the client make money?

There are really two main ways your client makes money from your Selling Assistant service. If you’re just buying your client’s items outright to resell, you’ve already paid your client that flat rate, so that’s already taken care of. If you’re charging a fee or commission, however, you’ll most likely be paying your client the actual value their items sold for less any expenses.

Just as you were probably most focused on how you’d earn money fr...

Step out of your comfort zone and be aggressive! B- E Aggressive!

My husband came in as I was making thislittle graphic and gave me a quizzical look.”I decided this was a productiveuse of my time.” I said. He looked doubtful and left without another word. But I made it anyway, printed it out and pasted it where I’ll see it every day.

It comes down to this: Women are taught to be less aggressivefrom birth. And while I’m above average atgrabbing the cow by the udders as it were or I wouldn’t have gotten this far, I’ve come to realize that I need to get up in...

As if there was ever any doubt…

I am not big on online quizzes but this one happened to catch my eye and I knew I just had to take it. It purported to determine “What commedia dell’arte character are you?” and I took it and to the surprise of no one the result was…

I mean, OF COURSE, I’m Truffaldino. “Every scenario needs your expert intrigue and comedy to help set the plot in motion” INDEED.

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Shipping costs & selling fees are the least of your worries…

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Anything that can go wrong, will when it comes to selling online!

While shipping and selling costs may seem obvious, there’s a host of other expenses that can arise over the course of a Selling Assistance job. You’ll want to take the time to consider these options in advance so you can protect yourself against them in your contracts and agreements. Always make sure your clients understand the nature of any incidentals to avoid unpleasant surprises. Wors...

eBooks of The Green Bird are available for pre-order now, acting editions to follow

My adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’sThe Green Bird is done and I’m incredibly excited to share it with you. There’s a lot to debrief after this massive project but I want to get some business out of the way first. While I may someday pursue traditional publishing options, for now, I plan to retain the rights and distribute it myself.This is good news for schools and theatre groups because it means I can make deals on scripts and performance rights like I used to for Three Oranges in a way I can’t t...

On plotters & pantsers and why the designation no longer matters by the second draft

I’ve had a writing epiphany and I think this one is a game changer.

Back in December, I started adapting my plays Polar Twilight and New Year’s Thieve as a MG novel. The first draft came very easily and it was pretty put together and I thought I’d be able to clean it up and shopit by the end of Spring. But as I started cleaning it up, something weird happened. A minor character went rouge and started taking over. This character appears in both plays but has the smallest role of the character...

Blogging to market your items for sale? Turn that content into eBooks & sell those too! Interview with seller turned author Cliff Aliperti

Cliff Aliperti (@IEphemera) is a multi-channel seller with a real niche specialty: vintage movie collectibles. Like a lot of us collectibles sellers, he’s gone from selling at trade shows to stores oneBay, Amazon and then eventually also his own webstore, Immortal Ephemera. But one thing Cliff has mastered that a lot of niche sellers still struggle with is that he really excels at using blogging to promote his items. In my review of ecwid, I used Immortal Ephemera as an example of the power o...

State of the Writer: Mid year progress report

We’re right at the mid-point of 2015so now seems like as good a time as any for a big State of the Writer post. The halfway point of the year always sneaks up on me. I truly can’t believe that it’s already July!I’m going to bold what each paragraph is about so that skimmers can easily find just the updates they care about.

This past month has been all about my adaptation of Carlo Gozzi’sThe Green Bird. I’m making what should be the final round of changes before I start sending it out to beta...

How discounted & free shipping offers affect consignment selling

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Any seller, consignment or not, will tell you that shipping is one of the biggest expensesof e-commerce. Which begs the question…

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Should your clientpay the shipping costs on their consignment items?

There are several scenarios when it comes to shipping, but no matter how you’re shipping your items, someone’s got to pay for the shipping. Will it be you or your client? Or is there a third option?

Most of us are already charging our buyers directly for the shi...