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.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Never think of your works in terms of titles.

Do not write down a title and make the body of your text conform to it. Rather, work the other way around. The body of your text, once completed, will show you what its title should be, whether you like it or not.

Whenever you write a title first, you have no choice but to write the body of the text from your conscious. The material will not flow from your creative unconscious.