This paper proposes a connection between creative writing workshops and visual arts practices, particularly in how both can be considered as two supplementary means of access to personal affirmation and empowerment. For the purposes of this paper, the target group considered is students who experience low self-esteem and poor language skills. Faced with the tension felt by some students between the desire to produce and the feeling of being helpless, the arts can allow one to “launch an assault”, as Kafka states, against social and school seclusion. An analysis based on the reading of François Bon’s books (2000, 2007, 2011) and of French visual arts theory was used. A comparison shows that personal artistic practice is possible from what defines the subject: body, biography, and social experience. Thus, linguistic and visual arts ‘writings’ request, interrogate, and empower those points. Through this study, a path to personal writing is described: it sustains the consciousness of the language, of its power, and of its particularities.