April Davila - Author
I thought I might take a moment and talk about a great piece of writing advice I heard recently on the OtherPPL podcast. In case you're unfamiliar, the OtherPPL podcast is an author interview show hosted by Brad Listi and it is not to be missed. … [Continue reading] about Follow The Enthusiasm
Welcome to Writing Tip Tuesday, the Basic Punctuation edition. This is the fourth in a series of posts pulled from my free guide "On Not Writing Badly." You can download the whole thing by filling out this form, or, if you'd rather not subscribe to … [Continue reading] about Writing Tip Tuesday: Basic Punctuation
To take notes in Scrivener, click on the icon that looks like a little notebook in the Inspector. While "notes" is actually pretty self-explanatory, there are a few sneaky little things to pay attention to here. The Synopsis The top half … [Continue reading] about The Scrivener Inspector: Notes
Banana slugs are slimy, shell-less mollusks that can grow to be longer than nine inches and come in a variety of shades of yellow. They are detritovores, consuming the fallen biomaterial on forest floors along the Pacific Coast but avoiding … [Continue reading] about Banana Slugs
Progress on my second novel stalled out a bit over the summer (don't forget, you can now pre-order my debut on Amazon). Of course schedules always get a little hectic with the kids off school, and we did take a big family vacation, but the thing that … [Continue reading] about Tracking My Writing Goals
Welcome to Writing Tip Tuesday, the Commonly Misused Words edition. This is the third in a series of posts pulled from my free guide "On Not Writing Badly." You can download the whole thing by filling out this form, or, if you'd rather not subscribe … [Continue reading] about Writing Tip Tuesday: Commonly Misused Words
Having a basic grasp of Scrivener vocabulary makes it a lot easier to talk about the software. For instance, instead of saying "that column on the right, which may or may not be visible depending on your settings" I can say "the Inspector," but the … [Continue reading] about Scrivener Vocabulary