Writing from The Heart: June 2021

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.

Friday, June 4, 2021

When a man falls in love with different types of women--and possibly even different types of men--it is because he has been unable to find a satisfactory identity and is constantly playing different roles in search of it. It is the same role-playing some writers do when they are creating and simulating the lives of different characters.