Write Now Coach! Blog by Rochelle Melander

An Interview with Jane Rubietta Welcome to the blog, Jane! Tell us about your new book, Merge: The Road After Trauma Meets Faith. Rochelle, thank you for this invitation! With a sub-subtitle of “40 ride-along reflections for the detours you didn’t choose,” it’s a book for people trying to get... Read More

11 Aug 2026

Game Changer

Hook Your Brain: How to Focus and Write Now

By Rochelle Melander May Sarton published Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, anovel about a poet and writer in the early 60s, long before cell phones and the internet. Here’s what she said about the main character’s struggle to write, no doubt inspired by her own writing life: Every single day she... Read More

04 Aug 2026

Game Changer

The Writer’s Secret Weapon: Envisioning Your Future Self

By Rochelle Melander Imagine that you have someone who’s eagerly awaiting your next writing project. She will rejoice when you finish it. He can’t wait to get it out into the world. How would you behave differently if you knew someone was waiting for your work? I’m guessing you might... Read More

28 Jul 2026

Game Changer

Stop Staring at the Blank Page: Why Prewriting Is a Game Changer

by Rochelle Melander There’s more than one way to look at a blank page. Gaston Bachelard wrote: A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. G.K. Chesterton... Read More

21 Jul 2026

Writing in Crisis

The Courage to Ask: How Getting Help Transformed Helen Keller’s Life

by Rochelle Melander We imagine that writing and making art is easy. Sometimes it is. An idea hits us and we execute it with ease. But that’s very rare. In fact, making art can be hard. In his book, Several short sentences about writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg writes, “It’s hard work,... Read More

14 Jul 2026

Game Changer

The Game Changer: Gather Ideas Like A Pro

The Writer’s Guide to Collecting, Generating, Recording, and Developing New Ideas by Rochelle Melander Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any. – Orson Scott Card Ever get that flash of... Read More

07 Jul 2026

Author Interviews

Writing by Hand

An Interview with Poet Michele Wolf by Rochelle Melander Tell our readers about your new book of poems, Peacocks on the Streets. The book’s title and my poem “Peacocks on the Streets” are based on that time during the early months of the pandemic when we were all quarantined at... Read More

30 Jun 2026

Editing

How to Start a Critique Group

by Rochelle Melander I hear many horror stories about critique groups. Writers attend a group hoping for helpful feedback and receive harsh criticism, misinformation, or personal attacks. After one or more challenging experiences like that, many writers avoid critique groups, feel anxious about getting critiqued, or give up on writing.... Read More