Writing from The Heart

"Writing from The Heart" is a workshop on creative writing, creative drawing, and creative drama. There are three available versions of this workshop: one for beginners on the secondary, tertiary, and graduate levels, and another for practitioners. A third version of this workshop is designed as an outreach program to disadvantaged and underserved audiences such as the disabled, the poor and the marginalized, victims of human trafficking, battered women and abused children, drug rehabilitation center residents, child combatants, children in conflict with the law, prisoners, and gang leaders. This third version incorporates creativity and problem awareness, conflict resolution, crisis intervention, trauma therapy, and peacemaking.

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Experiment with various writing instruments and identify your most comfortable medium.

Write with a pencil, a ball point pen, a roller ball pen, a sign pen, a gel pen, a fountain pen, a dip pen, a quill pen. Write with fine-pointed nibs, broad nibs, fancy nibs. Write using a variety of inks--try the colored inks of J. Herbin, Private Reserve, Caran d'Ache, Noodler's--there are brilliant inks, watered-down inks, and pastel-hued inks--you can dilute them with water and mix them, if you like. You might as well try different kinds of paper too.

What is your folder or notebook cover made of? Leather, fabric, carved wood, metal, cardboard, plastic?

Be aware also that you shouldn't get fixated on the same materials. You grow, you change, you develop finer preferences. Like good food, your writing materials should have variety.