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 4, 2025

A post fgrom Febryuary 5, 2020:

A piece of advice I gave a young writer today:

Be a serious writer. Do not be a pop culture writer whose truth is ephemeral--future generations will only laugh at you and devalue your works. Do not strive to reach as many readers as you can in the present. Those readers only seek to be entertained. If those readers are your fans right now, it isn't worth it writing for them, for all they want is to clutter their shelves with as many books as they are able to. Remember that, as of today, THERE IS A WRITER IN EVERY SQUARE INCH OF THIS COUNTRY, and you should be the writer who withstands the test of time.