by Nicole Baute | Mar 6, 2015 | Writing
A fellow business owner and coach asked me the sweetest question the other day. As an experienced writer, do my words flow just as I want them to on the first try? The answer was no—heck no! Revision is one of the secrets to great writing. I’m a big advocate of...
by Nicole Baute | Feb 23, 2015 | Entrepreneurship
I can’t remember the first time I encountered Sarah Selecky, but I do know this: I’ve been following the Canadian fiction writer for years. I was an early student of her amazing ecourse, Story is a State of Mind, and when she agreed to contribute to an...
by Nicole Baute | Feb 13, 2015 | Entrepreneurship, Miscellanea
Every person with a big heart and an entrepreneurial spirit reaches a point where they have to decide. To stay or walk away. To do the conventional and expected thing, or take an abrupt right turn. To follow the rules, or write their own. I’ve had a few of these...
by Nicole Baute | Feb 2, 2015 | Entrepreneurship, Writing
The other day, I completely spaced out. I was riding my bike downtown to meet my partner after work. I was physically present in the world but mentally elsewhere. I zipped right past the safe street with the bike lane, the street I was supposed to take right. Instead,...
by Nicole Baute | Jan 20, 2015 | Writing
In the lead-up to last weekend’s Virtual Writing Retreat for Entrepreneurs (which went swimmingly, by the way!), I asked participants to tell me about their writing struggles. Voice was one of the subjects that came up the most. These entrepreneurs found it...
