
CREATIVE WRITING
at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco
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Tag: summer
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Over the summer I was in a funk. Whenever I tried to write, I got the overwhelming sensation that I was wasting my own time, in addition to whichever poor friend who had to read my own piece. For months this creeping sensation followed me, making itself intertwined with the heat of the summer like…
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There’s no way to say it nicely. Assigned summer homework is not something all CW students enjoy. Summer is the only extended period time over two weeks in length where we aren’t sitting through classes lasting an hour and twenty minutes. It’s when we do not have to wake up at ungodly times of day…
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Well readers, it’s that time of summer again–the time of summer you don’t quite admit is there because summer exists as a timeless entity anyway: summer is halfway over. Actually, it’s a little more than halfway over. In a month and a week we’ll have to fill our backpacks with pens and notebooks, and finally…
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Which came first, the summer or the lethargy? The easy connection to make is, school’s out, it’s vacation time, hence the desperate urge to do absolutely nothing. But it can also stand to reason that the urge to do nothing during the summer is some sort of universal truth of humanity, so instead of trudging…