You Don’t Need More Discipline.
You Need to Slow Down by Rochelle Melander Last Monday, I took a walk during my lunch hour. Between Show Up and Write and several... Read More
Are You Getting It Done? Five Accountability Strategies That Work
by Rochelle Melander Writing can be like folding a banquet-sized tablecloth; you can do it yourself, but it’s a lot easier when you can find... Read More
Breaking Free from the Action Fallacy
by Rochelle Melander On our return trip from New Orleans, we spent five hours in Chicago. Not in the city. Not in the airport. On... Read More
How Hopequesting Can Change Your Life
by Rochelle Melander We all know about doom scrolling. Despite setting the intention to take time away from Facebook, I found ways to doomscroll. When... Read More
Is Your Morning Routine Ruining Your Day?
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... Read More
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