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.
Month: February 2013
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Let the streets be the given. The buildings are a defining property of the streets. The x axis is numbered 1–30. Let the x axis be called Mission. Points are clustered between 15 and 25. In this equation, all buildings have a height ≥ 2 stories, though not all have two distinct stories. In f…
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by Hazel (’13) “Best” is sometimes substituted with “easiest.” Either way, this is a statement a lot of teenagers have heard. And sure, maybe the stakes are lower. There’s all that “do well in school or you won’t get into college” stuff, but it’s not like a teenager has to worry about the mortgage or…
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by Mollie (’13) Polish writer, Joseph Conrad, is most known for his acclaimed novel Heart of Darkness. Heart of Darkness follows Marlow, a British sailor in search of adventure, while traveling up the Congo River and into the depths of the Congolese rainforest in the late 1800s. While acclaimed for its literary merit and considered…
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by Josie (’16) I have worked for a farm called Eatwell Farm at the Ferry Building farmers market, held on Saturdays, for a year now. Eatwell Farm is a small, organic farm located in Dixon, California that produces a variety of products from body scrubs to eggs. I got the job at the farmers market…
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by Hazel (’13) We recently finished our Poetry through Jazz unit in Creative Writing II. It was a new approach in that it gave our writing a historical context, both in terms of subject matter and style. But the one thing that will really stick with me was something that Justin (our artist in residence)…
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by Olivia W. (’16) This is a question I get asked a lot. Nobody ever asks, “What do you even do in band?” because that’s quite obvious, as well as “What do you even do in Visual?” or better yet, “What do you even do in Vocal?” Nobody asks “what do you guys even do…
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by Noa (’16) A few months ago, Colin and I began an internship at Zest Books. Zest is a company that publishes non-fiction books geared toward teen audiences, on subjects ranging from how to make clothes out of old jeans to the memoir of a teenage girl diagnosed with leukemia. It’s an awesome company that…
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IT’S TOO LATE TO WATCH THE SUNSET It’s 7 pm on a Sunday, one of those hey-let’s-be-alone-days, not particularly out of choice, but I like it anyway, because I can do what I want, listen to what I want, eat what I want, act as I will. I’m hungry, going out for a bite to…
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EXHIBIT C You do it for me, in so many words I would like t o know where you come from like a c rumple d document tossed off a boat or a bundle of a baby and silverware, tucked under your coat. How the grit erodes your cheekbones and sand lightens your eyes. You…
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST F your upper class commas and Valencia suits sewn with elephant tusk and Sierra Leone’s children, UNICEF babies, Korea and India, Tijuana and China on their knees polishing the shoes of Mr.America and his son F your wooden desks gold plated pencils, hyperboles, polysyndetons, and sixteen years of celebrating European culture…
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