Kim Montgomery

Every writer knows the feeling of the dreaded blinking cursor on a blank page, the weight of expectation, and the creeping dread of write...

I recently started a book club. I started it because a friend of mine, another mum at the school my kids go to, told me she wanted to rea...

People write for many different reasons. Last year, we asked over 70,000 of our users why they write, and the results were very interesti...

Let me be very clear about this: there is no famous first line of a not-famous novel. Opening lines only stand up on their own when a pie...

I’ve been reading a book lately and the first chapter had me question the way I write and edit my work. I wanted to share with you ...

Today is a milestone for us as we bring our brand-spanking new rebuild of Novlr into public beta! Anybody signing up to Novlr for the fir...

Writing a perfect ending is hard. Is it the most excruciatingly difficult part of the writing process? Is it the most hair-pulling, mind-...

Is there a single perfect novel opening? No. Is there a single winning formula to your perfect novel opening? No. There are, however, ver...

We are thrilled to announce that we are official NaNoWriMo Epic Sponsor 2021. NaNoWriMo is a cornerstone of the Novlr year. It was the fi...

We are not the experts on NaNoWriMo. We are not even the experts on writing. We are certainly not the experts on writing during NaNoWriMo...

NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. The prospect of 50,000 words is looming, and if you’re anything like me, you may be currently caught in the ...

Somehow, it’s almost that time of year again. Brush off your laptops and pick up your pencils, because National Novel Writing Month (NaNo...

You re-read everything you wrote today. You don’t only dislike it. You hate it. You ctrl+A and consider deleting the lot, before ta...