Write Now Coach! Blog by Rochelle Melander

(And How to Critique Your Own Work) by Rochelle Melander Writers have been telling me they use AI only to edit their work. They’re not just using spell check or Grammarly. They’re uploading their work into Claude or ChatGPT and asking it to provide a critique or clean up the... Read More

16 Jun 2026

Game Changer

Game Changer #3

Need a Breakthrough? Clean Your House! by Rochelle Melander “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” That saying, attributed to both Knute Rockne and Joseph P. Kennedy, was used in a hit song by Billy Ocean. It perfectly captures the American work ethic: work hard. While it may... Read More

09 Jun 2026

Game Changer

How Connecting to Your Purpose Can Transform YOU and Your Writing

by Rochelle Melander When the world is in crisis—it’s important to get connected to your why. Twice a week, Heather Cox Richardson, closes her Politics Chat by encouraging people to find their purpose and act. Often, she recommends that people make art. Today, writers are taking to their blogs, YouTube,... Read More

02 Jun 2026

Publishing

Stop Guessing: Why You Need to Know Your Audience

by Rochelle Melander In the past ten years, I have consulted with many authors on their book proposals and book ideas. I have also written and successfully sold several book proposals of my own. In every single case—mine included—the writers needed to improve their marketing section—the one about their audience—before... Read More

26 May 2026

Productivity

The Top Game Changers for Writers

by Rochelle Melander I’ve been thinking about game changers: ideas, practices, or products that literally change the game. Consider the printing press. Before Johanes Gutenberg invented the press in the 1440s, all manuscripts were copied by hand. Imagine the waitlist at the monastery for the Bible. The monks must have... Read More

19 May 2026

Productivity

Turn Obstacles into Opportunities

Rochelle Melander As a coach, I work with people who want to overcome obstacles to write. Usually we work together to find a way around or through the obstacle. Makes sense, right? We can’t achieve our goal with that huge obstacle in the way. But I had a new view... Read More

12 May 2026

Writing Process

What If Your Quirks Reveal Your Superpowers?

by Rochelle Melander Clarissa Pinkola Estes has something important to say. Did you know … that eccentricity is the first sign of giftedness? What if the thing that people criticize you for, the thing people find irritating about you, is also your biggest gift, your superpower? Author and Jungian psychoanalyst... Read More

05 May 2026

Author Interviews

Writers@Work: How use the 100-Day Project to Write a Book

An Interview with Kimberly Knowle-Zeller by Rochelle Melander Welcome, Kimberly. Tell Us About Your New Book. Small Steps: Blessings to Lift Your Soul on the Pilgrimage of Life is a collection of blessings, poetry, and essays that meet the reader in their everyday life: the nitty gritty, down-in-the-dirt, dishes-piled-in-the-sink, carpool-waiting,... Read More