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...