Posts by Kallie Red-Horse

Networking sounds business-y AF, and therefore fundamentally inapplicable to those of us in creative occupational fields. Right? Aren’t we artists precisely to avoid this kind of selling out to the Man and “kissing ass in order to get a job”?

I was getting desperate and in need of an immediate solution. What I found instead was a gross overabundance of proclaimed expertise on the topic. I decided to test out these suggested methods for curbing writer’s block and report back so that you don’t have to.

I know as a writer, I regard the fruits of my labor as children. There is little as painful as pouring everything you have into creating your child only to have it sent back as unworthy of publication, except maybe the rejection of an actual child you birthed and raised for 23 years.

I have been attempting to isolate the foundational factors of what fosters thought conducive for my own work. What I found most helpful is W.H.O.O.P.I.