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.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Many writers make the mistake of thinking up a great title and then proceeding to write the work. This is a glossy-magazine, non-literary, method, and is the very sequence that leads to writer's block and Procrustean thinking.

Write the work first. You will discover that the work will give itself the right title after you are done.

The same is true of painting.