How to Revise Your Novel
True revision, in which a writer takes apart a book and puts it back together again, terrified me. How could anyone pull it off?
I’ll tell you how: step by step, little by little, just like you wrote the book.
What Is a Comma Splice?
By Mignon Fogarty How to Use Commas Commas are always tricky because there are so many different ways you can use them, but one of the most…
NaNoPlanno: Tools for NaNoWriMo Prep
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month: a frenzy of writing with the goal of producing a 50,000-word novel during the thirty days of November.
Even Snowflakes Follow the Rules
The art of storytelling has been around as long as language, and its current form—what story nerds call structure—is not an accident. It works. It resonates. It strikes all the right chords deep inside the lizard part of our brains.
Can you revive a series a decade later?
By Libby Fischer Hellmann My latest thriller, Jump Cut, is the fifth Ellie Foreman mystery, and it’s been ten years since the fourth one came out.…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 047 – KoBoWriMo Roundtable
For the month of November, a brave team of Kobo staff joined forces to give NaNoWriMo a shot. We blogged about our efforts throughout the month,…
How To Use Foreshadowing As A Writing Tool: Part One
By Terry Odell When you write, you’re likely to be throwing a lot of obstacles in the paths of your characters. You’ll be giving them skills…
Team KoBoWriMo: Week Three
10 days to go! This week we wanted to know, what have our WriMos been working on, anyways? Mark –28,023. “It’s a horror novel about an…
Team KoBoWriMo: Week One
We’re 6 days into NaNoWriMo 2015. How is our team of brave WriMos doing so far? Well… let’s just say most of us (already!) have some…
Introducing the 2015 KoBoWriMo Team
We’re off to the races! NaNoWriMo starts TODAY, and we have a team of intrepid Kobo staff giving NaNo a shot this year. We’ll share weekly…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 041 – Barbara Freethy
We’re really excited to share this episode with you: an interview with #1 NYT bestselling author Barbara Freethy! Barbara shares great stories about her publishing journey,…
Writing your novel this summer? Here are 6 no-fail tips for self-publishers
By BlueInk Review As summer kicks into full gear, many are taking the time to write that novel or memoir they’ve been planning to get to…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 034 – Grant Faulkner from NaNoWriMo
The ultimate writing challenge: 50,000 words. 30 days. Making creativity a #1 priority. It’s NaNoWriMo! In this episode of the KWL Podcast, US Manager Christine Munroe…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 030 – Dean Wesley Smith
Mark Lefebvre, Kobo Writing Life Director, in conversation with Dean Wesley Smith, a USA Today Bestselling author of books in multiple genres including Science-Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers and…
KWL Blog from 2014 In Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed…