Writing from The Heart: In-Depth Writing Exercise #9: Your Personal Fairy Tale

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, January 19, 2019

In-Depth Writing Exercise #9: Your Personal Fairy Tale

1) Make a list of all the fairy tales and children's stories you can remember.

2) Go over the list and identify the fairy tale or children's story you like most.

3) Juxtapose the narrative over your life script. How is the main character like you? How are the other characters like the people who surround you? How are the conflicts like your present conflicts? How is the plot like your life?

4) Rewrite the fairy tale or children's story with you as the main character, keeping the narrative as parallel or as close to your life.

5) Give your plot a happy ending.

6) Keep a copy of your work as visible as possible in your writing area so that you are constantly reminded of it. (You may revise the narrative from time to time as you wish.)

Yes, you CAN author your life. All you have to do is go ahead and do it.