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.

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Once upon a time, cats were lonely, so they wanted someone whose only purpose in existence was to love and cherish cats. Thus, the Creative Writers were born. Out of the glowing bundle of soft and squishy warmness and fluff was a stack of Post-It notes that absolutely adored cats. Cats named that stack Midori, and that was that.

Author: Midori

  • Modern-Day Absurdism

    Lately I’ve been pondering war. They’re political, they hurt like hell to think about– I’ve carried this morbid fascination with the topic since Modern World last year. That’s probably where this got started, learning about World War One and reading All Quiet On The Western Front. WWI was the last of the Romantic wars, trench…

  • Re: Social Media

    Okay, I totally get it when people judge and poke fun at social media: Facebook cuts down actual face-to-face communication, Twitter is for twits, Tumblr’s just plain weird. Instagram is Twitter for people who can’t read/write (the joke being– Twitter posts have a 140 character-limit). And then the less mean one: Instagram just makes photos…

  • (I Wanna Take You to a) Play (Bar)

    ‘Aight, here are the long-awaited behind-the-scenes photos. Stay tuned for behind-the-scenes videos, for an in-depth look at CW’s creative process and waffles.

  • Work Hard, Play Harder-er

    A follow-up to Colin’s promo and a video add-on, edited by yours truly:

  • Depression, Angle of

    Without even getting into the whole ugly mess of “Asian kids are good at math!” I’m going to say that I recently received a 70% on a Pre-Calculus test. Those that are familiar with PreCalc concepts will know that this: is an angle of depression. I am neither the hot air balloon nor the bag…

  • Interlude: plugging “King Leopold’s Ghost”

    King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild My rating: 5 of 5 stars History is usually rendered boring and inaccessible through pedantic language and an influx of context-less facts and statistics. Hochschild removes all that and writes the story of history as if he were writing…

  • Teaching: An Unexpected…?

    I’ve never particularly fancied myself a teacher. A newscaster, a psychoanalyst, a singer, a broadway dancer, sure– never really a teacher. Why? They’re so under-appreciated, is why. I think everyone who has gone to a “normal” school can attest to this– ugh, teachers are so mean, ugh, they gave me detention, ugh, they’re so stupid…

  • 2013 Poetry Café: The Divine Feminine

    Friday, January 25th, 7:30PM @ SOTA Mainstage Saturday, January 26th, 7:30PM @ Café Flore

  • Had This Been a Workplace, It Would’ve Qualified As Hostile

    Had This Been a Workplace, It Would’ve Qualified As Hostile

    Lately has been disgustingly claustrophobic– in the one room in the big house grandma keeps building rooms in, this is the only space I can stay comfortable in, and it has a draft. Venturing out means repeating the same conversation with grandpa every time he sees me (“Have you eaten yet?” “Yes grandpa,” even when…

  • You Get ABS, and You Get ABS, Everybody Gets ABS!

    You Get ABS, and You Get ABS, Everybody Gets ABS!

    It’s a contemplative day in life when you realize you don’t have abs to spare. Or any abs at all. When you’re just a squishy tummy that cats like to sit on. A squishy tummy with a brain, because while I may not have abs to spare, I certainly do have ABS to spare. A.B.S.,…