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.

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Your e-mail message:

"Hello sir here I am again full of questions. Your suggestion sir about sublimating helped me a lot. I chose sir to write stories. Fictional stories.

"I love stories sir for they helped me live in this world more , to keep me more in tune with my surroundings; fiction they may be but believe that fiction consists of lies that tell the truth. Fiction released from me my animal desires. It feels like I am purging my darkness.

"But sir I have been suffering these anxieties and ocd and I have tried sports as a sort of relaxation but still stories are the best for me.

" Suddenly sir I have had this thought: why do I care about my characters if they are not real? They are nothing but the products of my imagination and that line of thinking has caused me to fall into a sort of pseudo metanoia . I know deep down that these thoughts are valid but I still choose fiction or stories as the outlets for my confessions.

"Could you recommend sir anything? Any methods? or maybe I am just over thinking.

"thanks sir."

My reply:

Hello _________________!

A writer is a god who creates a world and populates it with his characters, all of whom are extensions of his Inner Self. It is natural for a writer, therefore, to care a lot not only for that world but for the characters he designated to live in that world.

Always alternate writing with reading or some other activity, such as sports. Sometimes you need to rest from what you like doing best.