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.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

While it may seem unacceptable to struggling young writers, my advice to every writer is to write for oneself and one's readers, and never for a publisher. Publishers will handle writers' works like commodities, pretty much like pancakes for movies and TV.

This, however, is a realization that comes to every writer only upon maturity--the maturity of himself and the maturity of his works.