Writing from The Heart: July 2017

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, July 31, 2017

Mens Sana In Corpore Sano

Do not avoid activities associated with mesomorphs. Take up a sport, exercise daily, or go regularly to gym. A healthy body promotes a healthy mind--one that you need to continue producing creative works.

Never dash off a poem or a painting and attribute them to flashes of inspiration. Every work you create, no matter how long or how short, must be well thought out and laid down as perfectly as possible. In a manner of speaking, every work should not only contain the esthetic foundation and philosophical spine of your oeuvre, it should also contain the entire essence of your life from your birth to the present time.

Thursday, July 13, 2017

When a writer does not articulate his thoughts in written words, his mind explodes.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Every epic novel begins with a single sentence, and that is what you should dare to write.

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

When not writing, read.

Never go with cardboard or plastic folders for your personal use. Your creative writing is not for an office or school, and you deserve better than those.