Writing from The Heart: A Writer's Year-End Exercise

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.

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

A Writer's Year-End Exercise

If you are keeping a journal, reflect on your previous year, a month at a time, from January to your present situation. Write one important thing you learned each month, coming up with a list of 36 (or less). Which three things helped you the most to grow mentally, emotionally, and spiritually?

Draw a pyramid of squares (bottom row, five squares, middle row, four squares, top row, three squares) and arrange your 12 lessons accordingly with the three most important things you learned on top.

Then draw three blank squares to complete the pyramid. Write, inside those squares, what you hope to attain in 2018.