CREATIVE WRITING
at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco
Welcome! CW develops the art and craft of creative writing through instruction, collaboration, and respect. This blog showcases STUDENT WRITING and how to APPLY to Creative Writing.
Author: Colin
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To be honest, I never really saw myself as much of a play person. It’s not a long held prejudice, or a complicated one. I’ve just never been very interested in reading them on paper, and although I enjoy the productions that I get a chance to see, it’s just not something I find myself…
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It’s quite simple, actually. Friday is a magical day. It’s a day to be around people you love. It’s a day to spend time with the people you really care about. And who do you care more about then Creative Writers who have spent the last month slaving over their various 10 minute scripts? Next…
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This year, many Creative Writing students (as well as a theater student) had the joy of winning awards at the 2013 Youth Arts Festival. It was great to go to the Literary Arts Award Ceremony and see everyone read or receive their awards, as well as a see a very important keynote address about the…
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What is there to look forward to in the Poetry Café this Friday and Saturday @ 7:30? Well. . . – Feminine energy flowing from the stage, and not the awkward, intense, liberal, all talk “equal rights” feminism, but a celebration of what femininity means to all of us. – The last Poetry Cafe of…
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One of the earliest units Creative Writing delved into this semester was an “art unit” taught by Ronald Chase, where he helped us understand the changing landscape, subject, and techniques of art, and taught us ways in which we communicate about art. Why use, “I just don’t like it very much,” when you can go…
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Do you like bacon? sausage? All You Can Eat Pancakes? A chance to run into one of our amazing Creative Writing students? Then you should come this Sunday (or the next) to Sweet Inspiration Cafe in order to participate in SOTA’s Pancake Breakfast! This coming Sundays, December 9, and the Sunday after it (the 16th),…
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It is a well known fact that we CWs have a strong and insidious dislike of math. We are writers after all: wielders of the mighty pen. You’re using a pencil?! Haha, what is this?? We’re not in MATH!!! But lately there has been change brewing. Lately. . . well, the landscape has changed. The old…
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Submission Anxiety. We all get it. We all deal with it. We all sit back in out chairs, look at the ceiling, take a breather, breathe in, breathe out, then start searching through the giant list of places to submit. We pick a few that seem promising–like they would be a good home for our…
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