#NaNoWriMo Rescue: Try Exercise! By Rochelle Melander
I’m not talking about running or practicing yoga, though exercise and other repetitive tasks (folding towels or knitting) can help you overcome writer’s block. I’m... Read More
How to Build Your Own #NaNoWriMo Challenge by Rochelle Melander
Every November thousands of otherwise normal people give up their spare time and write a 50,000-word novel in a month. The challenge is called National... Read More
Writers@Work: The Art and Science of Translation by Katherine Douglass
When I first spoke with Katherine several years ago, she was living in France. Though she described her house as old and drafty, I envied... Read More
How to Protect Your Genius Time by Rochelle Melander
Over the summer, I read a blog post on Life Hacker by James Clear: You Have 25,000 Mornings as an Adult. Here’s How Not to... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
The Five Habits of Sane Writers by Rochelle Melander
It’s nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid of. —Shirley Hazzard... Read More
How I Failed Multitasking and Found Time to Write by Rochelle Melander
Multitasking is the opportunity to mess up more than one thing at a time. —Anonymous I had a meltdown. I’m not proud of it. It happens... Read More