by Chris Mandeville Arts and crafts, anyone? Get out your old magazines, some scissors and glue, and a poster board because—believe it or not—creating a collage can serve as a powerful writing tool. Just ask award-winning bestseller Barbara Samuel (who also writes as Barbara O’Neal): “Collaging gives me a way to brainstorm without words, to find the mood and
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By Gloria Kopp Trouble combating writer’s block? For many, fear is a primary cause of writer’s block. You may be afraid of failure, and that others will judge your writing. It is not uncommon for writers to strive for perfection, but nothing is never perfect on the first try. To overcome this, take any criticisms as means to improve. They
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By Joan Selby Exhausted. Sleepless. Stressed… Oh, you must be a writer! It’s a tough job, but you do it because it’s the only thing that makes you feel complete. When you have an idea and you want to translate it into literature, the process is beautiful and torturing at the same time. You stare at a blank page for
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In the past month, the Kobo Writing Life team has migrated our author care email system over to a new one (ZenDesk) in a move that has allowed us to respond more quickly to queries and emails. In the process, we have collected many of the FAQ and User Guide documents that appear within the Kobo Writing Life Dashboard under
Read moreFeed Your Creativity with a Writing Retreat This time of year, it’s easy to crawl into our writing hole and disappear for a few months. We label that time with things like “introvert recovery” and “deadlines” and “playing catch up.” Maybe we’ll emerge, see our shadow, and run back into hiding. After all, it’s more comfortable to stay in our
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