Writing from The Heart: October 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.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Never write or paint without a clear vision of your work in your mind and in your heart.

Monday, October 23, 2017

Know how much stamina your mind and your body are capable of. If they are easily exhausted, rest often. Do not force yourself to continue writing or painting--your work will suffer aside from your mind and your body.

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Successful and effective contemporary writing does not hinge on "new techniques", "new ideas", "gimmicks", or "young blood".

It hinges on the writer's ability to take timeless truths and present them within contemporary circumstances.