April Davila - Author
California’s central valley once contained more than four million acres of wetlands, where water from the mountains meandered its way toward the ocean, providing vital habitat for fish, birds and terrestrial animals alike. Gradually California’s … [Continue reading] about California Wetlands
For anyone who maybe doesn't know about NaNoWriMo, it stands for National Novel Writing Month. It happens every November. The challenge is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. As with anything in this crazy world, it has rabid supporters and adamant … [Continue reading] about To NaNo or Not To NaNo…
Today I want to explore some of the other things we can do in the program's Research folder. Find Your Research File Pretty easy, this one. It's right here, in your binder. To add things to this file you can go to File -> Import, or … [Continue reading] about Scrivener’s Research Folder
Northern California in the 1850s had a booming human population and very few dairy cows. Butter and cheese had to be shipped from Boston and New York at great expense. Inspired by the high prices, a few enterprising farmers imported dairy cows and … [Continue reading] about California Cheese
My publisher alerted me last week that they've set up a Goodreads giveaway for my book. They're doling out 50 copies (!) so be sure to head on over to Goodreads and enter to win your free copy. For me, this another in a long line of things that I … [Continue reading] about Goodreads Giveaway for 142 Ostriches
Welcome to the final Writing Tip Tuesday, the Writing Pet Peeves edition. If you've been following along, you know that I've been posting every Tuesday with content pulled from my free guide "On Not Writing Badly." You can download the whole thing by … [Continue reading] about Writing Tip Tuesday: Writing Pet Peeves Edition
Back before I learned this little trick, I used to create file folders full of bookmarks in my browser to store links to websites I found useful. That worked okay, but we all know how easy it is to get distracted by the Internet. The more directly I … [Continue reading] about Embed Websites in Scrivener (and Minimize Distractions)