by kobowritinglife | Nov 11, 2022 | Blog, KWL Community, My Writing Life, NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month is in full swing! Here at Kobo Writing Life, we have been hosting weekly writing sprints for one hour at a time so everyone at Kobo who is participating this year can get closer and closer to that coveted word count. Writing sprints are...
by kobowritinglife | Nov 8, 2018 | The Craft of Writing, Tips
By Signe Pike “I’m working on a novel” If you’ve ever uttered these words you are most likely acquainted with the particular horrors of trying to complete a first draft. So many things rear up to challenge a writer in this fragile but crucial stage....
by kobowritinglife | Oct 19, 2018 | Literary Events Around The World, Tips
Adapted from a presentation by Elaine Malit, Big Data Software Engineer at Kobo What IS NaNoWriMo? If you’re new to these parts, you may not have heard of National Novel Writing Month, a global call to action challenging writers to get 50,000 words written over...
by kobowritinglife | Nov 20, 2015 | Self-Publishing, The Craft of Writing, Writer Reads
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 old abandoned hippie commune, inspired by a visit to an actual abandoned community that I discovered this past summer not far...