Stop Task-Switching and Get Stuff Done
by Rochelle Melander How often do you switch tasks? Gloria Mark, the author of Attention Span, tracked people who used an electronic device and noted... Read More
Writers@Work: Why Can’t I Focus?
An Interview with Rochelle Melander How did you come to coach clients who have ADHD? Just before the pandemic, I attended a class on ADHD.... Read More
Fill the Well
by Rochelle Melander Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, suggests that we all need to “fill the well.” She writes, “When we work at... Read More
Writers@Work: The Power of Reading and Writing Poetry
An Interview with Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong by Rochelle Melander Where did the idea for My Kooky Compendium of Thimblethoughts and Wonderfuzz come from?... Read More
The Power of Rest
by Rochelle Melander “If you get tired, learn to rest — not to quit.” —Banksy In the past few weeks, I’ve spoken to quite a... Read More
Writers@Work: Learning to Pivot
Sustaining a Freelance Writing Career An Interview with Sherry Beck Paprocki Welcome to the blog, Sherry! Tell us about your book, Freelance Fancy: Your Guide to Capturing... Read More
What do You Know?
by Rochelle Melander Last week I wrote about how much we need your voice: When you use AI to generate ideas or to write your... Read More
Writer, We Need Your Story
by Rochelle Melander This week the news broke that a freelance writer working for King Features used AI to write a list of top reads... Read More
The Question
Ask this question to support your storytelling by Rochelle Melander NPR talks about “driveway moments”—when you sit in your driveway to finish listening to a... Read More
Prepare for Your Maybe Someday
by Rochelle Melander When I created my tagline almost twenty years ago, “Where maybe someday becomes write now,” I was thinking about people who put... Read More