by Rochelle Melander  “Long-term results are created by the actions you take every day.” –Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington Only 20 percent of people keep their New Year’s Resolution. That’s right: 80 percent dump their New Year’s resolutions by the second week in February. How do those successful people do it? I have been...Read More

by Rochelle Melander Have you been to a big box store lately? All the school supplies have been set out like a big, beautiful writer’s smorgasbord. Who can resist the thick, colorful notebooks and the shiny new pens? Not me. Despite my stacks of unused journals and buckets of pens, I want new supplies. Why?...Read More

May 10, 2016     Note From Rochelle     Dear Writers,   Yesterday, I participated in my 3rd annual Run Like a Mother race. As I got close to what I thought was the finish line, I learned I had one more lap to complete first. And standing between me and the finish line?...Read More

November 24, 2015 Note From Rochelle Dear Writers, Our lucky stretch of weather ended on Friday night with a small snowstorm. So, no matter how much I’d love to delude myself about the weather in Wisconsin, I can’t. I live in snow country. I’ve dug out my boots and hat, and am trying to make...Read More

“…I had formed the habit of working in my studio almost every single day. Rain or shine, eager or dragging my feet, I just plain forced myself to work.” —Anne Truitt (Daybook, p. 126) When I was in second grade, I read Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. The novel taught me to think beyond what...Read More

One hasn’t become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating. —Niyi Osundare In the book The Power of Habit, author Charles...Read More