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, July 24, 2015

Many of my contemporaries believe that to be published, to be awarded, and to have one's plays produced are the hallmarks of a successful writer.

Having been there and done that, a successful writer, to me, is someone who writes whatever he wants no matter what and whether his works will be published, produced, or not, AND, AT THE SAME TIME, not be a starving artist but one who enjoys life, has a good house and home, has a good family, buys whatever he wants, and is able to STOP WRITING AND DO SOMETHING ELSE at any time.

Why write AT THE EXPENSE OF ALL THOSE THINGS I MENTIONED? It doesn't make sense.