April Davila - Author
I recently signed up for a 10K trail race with my friend Cindy (aka The Sweet Nerd) and her husband. His company is sponsoring a team. Since joining up, I've gone with them on two training runs and get this - they train on the actual trail marked out … [Continue reading] about Knowing the Course Ahead, in Running as in Writing
It's National Author's Day! What a perfect way to kick off NaNoWriMo. And since I'm participating myself this year, I'm going to keep today's post short and sweet, sharing a few tips and tricks to help us all on our way toward becoming published … [Continue reading] about National Author’s Day NaNoWriMo-style
Last night I crawled the streets of North Hollywood with a few hundred other book fiends for the Lit Crawl LA 2016. Last year I heard about it two days after it was over, so this year I planned ahead. (By the way, if you missed it, consider signing … [Continue reading] about Lit Crawl LA 2016
In a recent post, John Fox, of the BookFox blog, wrote about the challenges of self-editing. His very first bit of advice is to isolate the various elements of your manuscript and address each one in turn. In other words, do a pass looking only at … [Continue reading] about Keep Focused with a Writing Punch List
I've never done NaNoWriMo. At least, not really. And I've been losing sleep over whether I should join up for NaNoWriMo 2016. Previous NaNoWriMo Fails The main reason I've never participated is that, since I've been aware of the challenge, I've … [Continue reading] about NaNoWriMo 2016
This week marks 7 years of blogging! I can hardly believe it. Back when I started blogging, I was a grad student working on my first novel about an ostrich farm. Now, all these years later, I'm a writer still working on my first novel about an … [Continue reading] about 7 Years of Blogging
In the time since I started my novel, I have honed my elevator pitch. After eight years working on it, I thought I was getting pretty good at it. Every time someone asked "so, what's your novel about?" I practiced giving them the short version. But … [Continue reading] about The Elevator Pitch