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.

Monday, November 28, 2016

Finishing my novel and posting it in cyberspace must be somewhat like bringing to term and giving birth to a baby. There is a sudden feeling of fulfillment and of pride, quickly followed by a feeling of emptiness that verges on depression for the psychologically weak. During this dark time of stillness there is a compulsion to write again--in the same manner that a painter refuses to set down his brush lest his loss of momentum be perceived as a form of failure or of death. It is a fear of being infertile or sterile.

As for myself, it is always a time to rest and have fun. I spend that time hanging out with my children and grandchildren, or going shopping, or enjoying my house, or being around my antiques, or looking through my jewelry and my treasured collections and my favorite books and my DVDs.

After giving birth to a baby, after all, one doesn't rush to make another baby.

This is why I live. Not for the moments of writing and painting, but for the moments of resting and having fun.

Yet, almost no one seems to understand that.