Writing from The Heart: April 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, April 7, 2020

When a writer's works are as yet immature, they will merely reflect what he wants very much but cannot have.

Academics will impose hard and fast rules about poetry for purposes of promoting it as a craft, but poetry is as diverse as personality, and the poems you write, no matter what forms they take, are fingerprints of your soul--they are unique and they will never be like anyone else's.

Friday, April 3, 2020

In every time of crisis, do not rush to record what is happening around you. Instead, exercise your powers of observation, especially through your physical senses.

It is after the crisis is over that you will be able to write about everything.