What My Heroes Have Taught Me About Writing: Charles Darwin
by Rochelle Melander When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of the Species in 1859, the library at Trinity College, Cambridge—where Darwin had attended college—banned... Read More
How to Ditch Distraction
by Rochelle Melander Distracted from distraction by distraction. – T.S. Eliot Every day, I talk to people who want to write but can’t seem to... Read More
Game On! Harnessing the Power of Gaming to Write More
by Rochelle Melander At last week’s class, Level Up: Dream a New Dream, I talked about the benefits of using gamification to write more. Gamification... Read More
The Treasure Hunter
by Rochelle Melander On Saturday evening, I heard my dog digging through my office closet. I turned around to see her move a crate of... Read More
How to Stop Procrastinating
by Rochelle Melander Are you a procrastinator? Do you: You’re not alone. Twenty percent of people procrastinate. But procrastination comes with a cost. People who... Read More
Use the Enneagram to Bust Procrastination
by Rochelle Melander This summer, I became a certified IEQ9 Enneagram Consultant. But that wasn’t the beginning of my enneagram work. I have been studying... Read More
How to Get an AHA Moment
by Rochelle Melander Last week we talked about task-switching—and how about 44 percent of the time, we switch tasks because we’re bored Are you one... Read More
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
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