Comments for April Dávila, Story Teller

Comment on Being A Productive Writer by April

April — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:19:13 +0000

That would be great! Let me know next time you’re in LA.

Comment on Being A Productive Writer by Sage

Sage — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:13:53 +0000

That makes me so happy! I want to meet you for coffee!

Comment on Focus by Score One For Focus | April Dávila, Story Teller

Score One For Focus | April Dávila, Story Teller — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:38:47 +0000

[...] March I blogged about needing to focus my efforts as a writer. I was trying to do everything, and the result was the I was succeeding at [...]

Comment on Pillars of Eternity by Emilio

Emilio — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:22:43 +0000

SPOILERS!! HUGE SPOILERS. Sorry0: I finshed Catching Fire a day after I went back to oochsl. The next day, I asked for the third from my teacher only to find out the she hadn’t gotten it yet. I waited a day in agony and then the next day, my teacher pops up with it as I walk into class. She wanted to read it too so she go it from B&N the night before and read the entire thing. She let me borrow it and of course I loved it. I, like many other people, didn’t like Mockingjay in the beginning. It was cold hearted and bloody and unfair and WHAT THE HECK? Peeta wasn’t in love with Katniss. But, I learned to love it. I relized how real it was. NO one can go through what Katniss has and not feel roken, betrayed, and untrusting. Not to mention she felt kind of like that before The Hunger Games. Most wars, if not all, have death and betrayal and anger and violence and unfairness. And Suzzane Collins made sure that was known. Katniss was considered mentally dissoriented for half the book and she was forced to be the face of a revoulution she didn’t even know she wanted to ba a part of. By the end of the book, you feel broken and dissapointed by all the loss that you felt with Katniss. You feel the awkward uncomfort her and Gale felt. You understood where he was coming from. Your heart went out to Peeta who was so confused and lost and trapped. But, you also can’t help but feel a sense of hope that Peeta gave too. That life can go on. You can be happy again. I love and understand this book more and more each day. And I also have more respect for an author who doesent always believe in a perfect happily ever after.

Comment on An Almost Perfect Day by Pro

Pro — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:01:05 +0000

I really aaerpcipte your perspective here. Actually describing myself out loud as a writer didn’t happen overnight.Not to get all existential, but I believe that you ARE what you consistently DO . It had been my dream to write for years, but I spent a great deal of time doing other things, and suffered dreadful performance anxiety when I picked up the pen. I knew deep down that my stuff was good I just wasn’t sure others would think so. After getting plenty of great feedback ghostwriting for others, I recently decided to start a blog and publish under my own name. During those initial ghostwriting stages, in particular, I found that most people didn’t really understand what I was I doing my family in particular. My paychecks changed their minds.Sure, I have yet to hit my first big break and publish an internationally acclaimed earth-shattering best seller, but as long as I spend the majority of my time writing (and getting paid for it), I am writer.Thanks for the post, -Douglas Prater

Comment on Stoking the Fires by Serkan

Serkan — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:19:39 +0000

Oh an in response to your post, I erzliaed a while back that I loved to write, but the odds of becoming a successful and financially stable fiction writer are only slightly better than those of me becoming a starting QB in the NFL. I still enjoy writing fiction, but I enjoy having money in the bank as more. I don’t mind writing content for others, as long as the pay is good. It can get mind numbing but so can any job, and that is what writing it. It is a job. Fortunately, I can take a break whenever I want. I can take multiple days off in the middle of the week to work on other projects. Most people cannot just skip town when their jobs are weighing them down. I can. For that, I’m thankful.

Comment on Is blogging a waste of time? by Berke

Berke — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:17:05 +0000

Where to begin? I think that the best way to improve your wtrniig is to quit trying. By that I mean to either let the work take place or not, without worrying about it or any attendant consequences. If you are a writer you will always write, and eventually you will write well. If not, you will not write; you can’t make yourself put forth the effort. I write every day. It is just like eating to me. I don’t get stuck or lack for something to write about and I don’t suffer any pain from the work. I sometimes wonder at those who go at wtrniig as though they were building a stone wall with bare hands on a rainy day. If it hurts there is something wrong. That crap about suffering writers is wrong; their readers are the ones who suffer. Just write, and if you don’t want to, do something else or nothing at all. History is a pretty good predictor of what you will be doing tomorrow. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you must become a writer. Nobody becomes a writer. Writing is like eye color or height, something you can enhance a bit, but that’s all. And most of all, don’t strain. I can neither sing nor dance, but I have the brains to know this, and that I shouldn’t attempt either before an audience. By the way, if I’m any judge you’re doing all right.

Comment on For Daniel by April

April — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:24:33 +0000

Hi Suzann, it’ll be out soon. I’ll be sure to let you know when it hits the news stands.

Comment on For Daniel by Summer

Summer — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:20:08 +0000

Sweet.
It should have said: “For Daniel, who will soon learn how much more rad Portland, OR is than northern California. So just think about how much you love northern Cali and double that love.”

Comment on For Daniel by Suzann

Suzann — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:29:08 +0000

How about the article about H &T? Anxious to read their story.