April Davila - Author
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of joining Zibby Owens (creator of the Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books Podcast) as part of an Instagram Live series she was hosting while stuck at home (you can see the interview here). It was fun, and I'm … [Continue reading] about Present Tense As A Zoom Lens
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writers read. Adjust accordingly. But what does it really mean to read like a writer? What do we do differently as writers browsing pages? To answer these questions, I'd like to share an excerpt with … [Continue reading] about How to Read When You Want to Write Better
In July of last year I set myself a challenge to blog about Scrivener, once a week, for a whole year. I called it the 52 Weeks of Scrivener Challenge. Well, this is week 42 and I can officially say: it broke me. I'm done. I can't do any more. … [Continue reading] about A Scrivener Wrap-Up
If you've been following along with the blog, you know that, from time to time, I like to change things up. Over the course of the 10+ years I've been working on this blog, there have been a lot of changes. Some have been gradual, like shifting … [Continue reading] about Changes Afoot
This week, in the #52WeeksOfScrivener series I'd like to offer up a simple little trick that saves me a lot of grief. It's called "Lock in Place," which is a fine name, but it does beg a little explanation. The Challenge I like to … [Continue reading] about Lock Your Editor in Scrivener
Two hundred thousand years ago in the late Pleistocene era, a relatively small number of great white sharks from the waters around Australia broke away and migrated to the northwest region of the Pacific. Over millennia of isolation, this … [Continue reading] about Great White Sharks