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, May 21, 2017

Draw a person as best you can. Note that your skill in anatomy as an artist is always the equivalent of your perception of character when you write about a person.

If your literary depiction of a person is shallow or sketchy, try developing your drawing skills in anatomy. Begin with the skeletal system, and, when you have mastered that, progress to the muscular system. Be mindful of light, shadow, and three-dimensional rendition (a.k.a. "roundness").

Afterward, write about a person and note the improvement in your psychological understanding of that person.

It's all about powers of observation. And if you tell me that you are not interested in drawing human beings, why should I believe you when you say that you are interested in writing about them?