Writing from The Heart: July 2016

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.

Sunday, July 31, 2016

I sleep nine to ten hours a night at least twice a week, and I do so WITHOUT medication. A friend asks me how I can do that at my age.

Despite all theories that mention melatonin and seratonin, in all of my creative writing workshops I list down sleep as one of the 21 DEFENSE MECHANISMS. It can be used by you--or any of your characters--either to punish or to reward (protect) the body.

Every serious writer must own a dollhouse that he or she can populate, in his or her mind, with characters.

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Links to the July 2016 TheatreWorks Singapore Playwriting Workshop

https://writingandcommunity2016.wordpress.com/category/writing-from-the-heart/

https://writingandcommunity2016.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/its-a-wrap-writing-from-the-heart-playwriting-workshop-2016/

https://writingandcommunity2016.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/its-a-wrap-writing-from-the-heart-playwriting-workshop-2016/

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Playwriting Workshop for TheatreWorks Singapore, Monday, July 18 - Saturday, July 23, 2016)

Monday, July 17

This boys' parents are Filipinos, his father from Ilocos Norte and his mother from the Visayas. He was born and raised in Florida. He visited the Philippines only twice, the first time when he was seven, the second only to attend a relative's funeral in Manila. He neither speaks nor understands Tagalog. He now lives in Singapore and teaches English and literature to South Korean students.