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

When working on a novel, play, or short story, do NOT discuss your ideas, your work, or your progress with other people. This will dissipate your creative force--the energy you put into talking should be put into writing.

Whenever you talk about what you are writing, you will feel unable to go back to your desk and resume your work. That is because your psyche tells you that, having talked about your work and having released it in ether, you have already "written" it. You then feel empty and become bored, and your work is in danger of ending up as an abandoned project.

Creative catharsis is mental, emotional, and verbal. Keep everything within your inner sanctum and to yourself until your manuscript is done--and afterward release the finished work to the world.