
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.
Tag: Justus Honda
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by Amina (’17) Today in C-Dub I, we were joined by the delightful company of shadows (in case any of them are reading this, thanks for visiting, and hopefully we didn’t scare you too much), as we continued workshopping poems we all wrote with a special attention to sound and texture. Basically, our whole poetry…
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Yes, that exclamation point in the title is totally warranted, even if the permalink doesn’t think so. Voyager is off to a great start— we’ve got our whole cast and crew here: Heather, Tony, Rachel, Carol, Isaiah, Maia… Plus the brilliant tech crew we can’t do without (as Beyoncé once said, “Who run the world?…
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by Justus (’15) After excessive quantities of democracy it seems a sort of constitutional monarchy has been established in Creative Writing: we have our no-longer-negotiable show idea, the still-currently-unnamed show involving aliens and cruise ships (possibly Starboard or Alienation Generation, among other suggestions). We are also not allowed to argue about what the skit– er… interludes’ themes will…
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by Justus Honda (’15) From the Sarah Fontaine Unit rumbling bustle in a café at 7 o’clock in the evening, cardboard cups and porcelain mugs click and tap on marble tables, drawling voices reverberate off dimly lit walls. silent people filter through. someone walks in with music under their hat and oceansound in their pocket.…
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by Justus (’15) There’s a project I’m doing for Modern World, a very open-ended project. The assignment is to “make a piece of modern art.” I was originally planning to just write a long poem or something, but I have decided to do something a little out of the ordinary for me and work with…
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by Justus Honda This house has spirits living in mouse-holes, The kinds you come across Spinning through a gray-green daydream; Spirits that live off the disembodied hum From a refrigerator in the dark, Spirits that swoop and catch dust motes In copper waves of lamplight. This house has disinterested spirits, All-too-ancient things snoring In cobweb…
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by Mykel (’14) Love is “I don’t think the second person really serves the character development in this piece and also stop it with the italicized song lyrics.” Love is “HEATHER YOU DID NOT GIVE US ENOUGH WARNING ABOUT THIS HUGE ASSIGNMENT I HAVE COLLEGES TO APPLY TO.” Love is “buy our CDs, I promise…