Writing from The Heart: February 2020

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, February 25, 2020

Many writers establish their careers as classroom teachers because their students, co-faculty members, and administrators not only provide them the support they want but also treat them as though they were the greatest writers in the world, but those kinds of support and adulation are hardly the gauges of being a successful writer.

Know that, when you are reading a creative work, you are riding the author's mental horses, but that, sometimes, those horses are not strong enough to carry you across the deepest streams.