Write Now Coach! Blog by Rochelle Melander

On Monday, as I scrambled to finish an editing project, get the kids ready for school, and put together a newsletter—I felt stressed. I wasn’t sure how I’d finish it all. And then my computer crashed. In the 48 hours between crash and rescue, I whined and worried about losing... Read More

05 Sep 2013

Writers@Work

Writers@Work: How to be a Fit Writer by Dana DeGrazia

Hey writers! If you’ve followed this blog over the past few years, you know I’m passionate about fitness. I’m an avid walker, weight lifter (honest!), and wannabe runner. I also dabble in yoga. But mostly, I’m trying to move enough to fight the fat that comes with a desk job!... Read More

03 Sep 2013

Write Now! Weekly Writing Tip

Overcome Procrastination by Rochelle Melander

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. —E.L. Doctorow When I was in college and graduate school, we all procrastinated. We put off studying and paper writing in favor of talking about esoteric subjects and... Read More

27 Aug 2013

Write Now! Weekly Writing Tip, Writing Process

Falling in Love by Rochelle Melander

When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day we are happier, more enlightened, alive, lighthearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves. –Brenda Ueland In June, I took my son to a Switchfoot concert. In the middle of their show, the lead singer talked... Read More

20 Aug 2013

Write Now! Weekly Writing Tip

A Shoe Story by Rochelle Melander

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday? —Sherley Mondesir-Prescott In late June I went shoe shopping. Now ordinarily, I love to shop for shoes. But I’d been to three different DSW stores on four different occasions in two weeks, trying to find shoes. My birthday coupon... Read More

13 Aug 2013

Write Now! Weekly Writing Tip

Find (More!) Time to Write by Rochelle Melander

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. —Clarissa Pinkola Estes Stephen King writes every day, with the goal of writing ten pages a day. Hemingway wrote early in the... Read More

30 Jul 2013

Productivity, Write Now! Weekly Writing Tip

How to Write When You Have No Time by Rochelle Melander

If I have ten minutes I use them even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive. —Rumer Godden. So how do you write when you have no time? That’s not a stupid question. We all encounter periods when we have no time to write. At times,... Read More