by Nicole Baute | Oct 27, 2015 | Writing
There’s one last thing I always do before publishing a blog post or sending an email to my subscribers. After everything’s written, formatted and edited…. I pause and take a moment to break up my paragraphs. Online, we want ’em short. Give the...
by Nicole Baute | Oct 26, 2015 | Miscellanea
I didn’t meet a writer until my early twenties. Even then, the writers I met were also university lecturers, offering a slim and specific window into the world of letters. I was left struggling to make sense of it. Could I be a writer? What did that mean?...
by Nicole Baute | Oct 23, 2015 | Writing
I’ve officially hit the saturation point. Two years ago, before I’d officially joined the world of online business, everything felt fresh. I mean, not fresh-out-of-the-garden fresh, but still, pretty crunchy. Every day, it seemed, I encountered something...
by Nicole Baute | Oct 6, 2015 | Writing
I was tempted to begin this blog post with a truly outrageous statement. I considered, for example, telling you about how I bit into a piece of glass the other night or that I just bought a plane ticket to watch a friend get married on skis—oh, Canada! (Both true, and...
by Nicole Baute | Sep 24, 2015 | Miscellanea
I’m working my way through Julia Cameron’s The Right to Write, which is a wonderful roadmap for anyone who loves writing…and sometimes resists doing it. The book is full of writing exercises to get you out of your head and onto the page. The one...
by Nicole Baute | Sep 14, 2015 | Entrepreneurship
I’ve got a big question for you today—a question that will help you create a more refined and authentic online presence. And that, of course, is precisely how you attract the right people and build a business that’s 100% aligned with your values. But I...
by Nicole Baute | Aug 12, 2015 | Entrepreneurship
You showed the The Thing You Are Creating to your mother, and she said, “That’s nice, sweetheart.” And you thought, “Hmm…” You showed the The Thing You Are Creating to your best friend, and she said, “It’s awesome!...
by Nicole Baute | Aug 6, 2015 | Writing
If you have a blog and a business, this might sound familiar. You’re trying to be honest and authentic so you can stand out against the monotonous congealed blob that is the Internet. (Just kidding, I love you, Internet.) But when you start to incorporate your...
by Nicole Baute | Aug 4, 2015 | Updates
It’s August, and hope you’re sipping sangria and feeling the sand (some sand, somewhere!) between your toes. January might be the start of the calendar year, but September’s back-to-school energy gets me every time. I feel a strong urge to buy a new...
by Nicole Baute | Jul 9, 2015 | Entrepreneurship, Writing
As creative entrepreneurs, we know that dreams and plans are worth very little on their own—creation requires serious action. But something we just don’t wanna. We lose our motivation and let our plans languish on our to-do lists for much, much longer than we...
