April Davila - Author
I would like to take a moment and praise jealousy. That’s right, good old envy. It’s an icky feeling, when we want something someone else has, but if we can shift our perspective a bit, we can use our own covetousness to illuminate what it is we … [Continue reading] about Using Jealousy to Illuminate What We Really Want
I had a whole post planned out for today. It was about a writing exercise I use while traveling to keep my writing mind sharp. As you know, I try to keep my posts focused on writing, but as a storyteller, I can't pass up the opportunity to share this … [Continue reading] about 22 Hours in an Ecuadorian Detainment Center
I'm sitting in my hotel room in Orlando. The #BlogHer17 Conference ended last night and I can now officially say (having been to both) that blogger conferences are really different from writer conferences. First of all, the standard for fashion … [Continue reading] about The Difference Between Writer Conferences and Blogger Conferences
I'm off this morning to the 2017 BlogHer conference in Orlando, Florida. It's the first time I've been to this conference. In fact, it's the first time I've been to any blogging conference. Usually, if I leave town without my family for anything it's … [Continue reading] about Off To The 2017 BlogHer Conference
A couple of weeks ago, a woman reached out to me in regards to an article she read in YourNewsWire.com: Melania Trump Bans Monsanto Products From The White House. As it turns out, an article I wrote six years ago was plagiarized to create this fake … [Continue reading] about I AM Fake News
The other day I got another rejection on my short story "Quitter." As I was updating my submissions spreadsheet, I realized that there are a lot of journals I haven't heard back from. Now, I know it's not unusual to get no response, but it occurred … [Continue reading] about They Accepted My Story and I Missed It
(A Cautionary Tale)
I've written a lot about how to speed up the process of writing a first draft. (Check out this post on How to Write Faster.) If you believe, like I do, that writing is rewriting, getting through that initial pass really can't be done quickly enough. … [Continue reading] about A Simple Trick for Better Self-Editing