Writing from The Heart: April 2023

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.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Dialogue in playwriting can defy the rules of language and grammar.

I use "Hindi RAW" when I want the line to sound gentle and feminine.

I use "Hindi DAW" when I want the line to sound forceful and masculine.

Dialogue is also contingent on characters' mental and emotional states, levels of maturity, economic background, and age.