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.

Friday, September 29, 2017

Knowing language, its craft, and its nuances comprises 30% of the requirements for writing. Your powers of observation, capacity for reflection, insight, memory recall, and emotional truthfulness comprise 69%, while 1% goes to your enjoyment of using writing instruments, whether pen or paper or electronic media.

All of those combined constitute your talent.

A long as you have that, you need not copy other people's "styles". Your individual experience is your truth, and your truth is your writing.