Kobo is proud to be an official sponsor of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). But to us, it’s not just about sponsoring a great world-wide event. It’s about helping local writers in their goals to hit 50,000 words. Just like we did last year, at about the half-way point, we opened our doors to 25 members of the Toronto NaNo
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NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) began today. Wishing all you NaNoNovelists a fantastic month of writing. If you haven’t started yet, don’t worry. There’s no better time than the present. The good folks at NaNoWriMo have all kinds of great content to help keep you motivated, including daily pep talks. Below is a link to the first one from Daniel
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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, then several of us (Mark, Christine, Bessie, Sophia, and Wendy) sat down to chat about our experience. Listen to this week’s episode to hear our roundtable discussion about how Team KoBoWriMo fared in 2015.
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We’re nearing the end of NaNoWriMo with just three days to go! We wanted to know, what’s the plan for your story? Will you keep writing into December? Are you happy with how NaNo went this year? Mark – 37,151. “With more than 12,000 words to write over the next three days, I look back at how I was able to pull
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Kobo is proud to be an official sponsor of NaNoWriMo and last week we opened our doors to 25 aspiring novelists. We received a great response from interested NaNo writers in Toronto and our own KoboWriMo team. We provided writing fuel (pizza and candy) and everyone got right to work. In two hours, our 25 participants wrote a whopping 47,000 words!
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