by kobowritinglife | Apr 15, 2024 | Blog, The Craft of Writing, Tips
Happy Poetry Month! In North America, April spent highlighting all things to do with poetry and the amazing poets who write it. Poetry is an ever-changing, ever-evolving form of writing with roots in antiquity – it predates prose writing (in the English language) by...
by kobowritinglife | Feb 16, 2024 | Blog, Resources, The Craft of Writing
For everyone starting 2024 with the goal of writing a (or another) novel, we at Kobo Writing Life want to introduce to an amazing opportunity from Reedsy. Reedsy is offering a fifteen-week novel writing course led by author Tom Bromley for authors looking to draft a...
by kobowritinglife | Jan 12, 2024 | Blog, KWL Community, My Writing Life, The Craft of Writing, Tips
Everyone loves a novel they can sit and read through in an afternoon – but authors can take many months, even years, to finish even the shortest novel (which is often around 20,000 words, by the way). So, knowing that you’re going to take at least a month, dear...
by kobowritinglife | Jan 5, 2024 | Blog, Self-Publishing, The Business of Writing, The Craft of Writing
Sometimes, as creative people, we might find ourselves thinking about alternate paths we could have taken with our art, or with our entire careers. We might think of this as a reset, but in reality, it’s more of a change. You are not starting from scratch: you have a...
by kobowritinglife | Nov 10, 2023 | Blog, The Business of Writing, The Craft of Writing, Tips
Writing a series is a huge undertaking: so much so that, for some authors, it can take decades to finish them. But writing a series is also very rewarding; with a series, you have loyal readers for the same amount of time. Series books also allow you to expand your...
by kobowritinglife | Nov 3, 2023 | Blog, KWL Community, The Craft of Writing
Retellings! At any given time in publishing, there is a retelling of a classic tale on the marketplace. There has been an ever-growing interest in retellings that work to broaden representation in classic novels and fairy tales by implementing more diversity via both...