April Davila - Author
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
I mentioned in my last post that I am heading into a final round of edits on my novel. This is draft seventeen, I think. I've kind of lost count because I saved a few versions at major decision points, leaving a couple of draft incomplete, but this I … [Continue reading] about Planning to Send Agents My Best Work
(And Only My Best Work)
Writers don't often talk about how many pages of their writing they throw away. I don't think anyone is trying to be secretive about it, but the truth is that by the time a book is published, nobody is thinking about all the writing that didn't make … [Continue reading] about Be Prepared to Throw Pages Away
(Lots of Pages)
If you follow me on Instagram, you probably saw that I recently turned 40. I wasn't going to have a party, I really wasn't. But my sister insisted. She told me she would plan the whole thing and just asked where I wanted to go. I said Joshua Tree, … [Continue reading] about A Joshua Tree Birthday for Me