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.

Monday, August 25, 2014

Once in a while, if you can afford it, buy an item you would not normally buy. (You can give it away later or decide to keep it.) Contemplate the item in your hands and explore your mindset, attempting to tweak it into the mindset of a person whom you think would normally buy that item.

This is one way of creating characterization. Contemplate different items--and you come up with an orchestration of different characters.