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, June 29, 2016

You can tell that a writer has transcended a crisis by reading his/her recent work, and it is usually excellent work. Learn, therefore, to allow your anger, grief, frustration, and despair to fuel your creativity.

Personal crises, like wars, can either bring out the best or the worst in you.

Note that WWI and WWII gave birth to timeless cultural forms, such as jazz, Hollywood, modern housing, and the exploration of plastic.

Note also that CURRENT wars are giving birth to nothing but paranoia, religious dissent, discrimination, and indignity in travel. (Electronic technology doesn't count; it would have developed anyway with or without wars.)

Make your crises bring out the best in you.