Author: SOTA Creative Writing

As sophomore year begins and my friends and I have a year of experience at creative writing, a lot of us have begun to write novels. This is the goal of many writers, but it’s often never reached, or for us, reached only in senior year, when we have to write our thesis. I started…

Creative Writing has helped me grow as a person and a writer. Creative Writing may seem like a “boring” or “uninteresting” department out of all of them in SOTA but I promise you that this department will blow your mind. This department is the reason why I come out of bed in the morning because…

Before joining Creative Writing, my experience in different formats of writing was very dim. I knew there were other types of writing out there and I wanted to know the beauty of them. You see, writing has always been and always will be a passion of mine. It’s been a way of expressing myself and…

The senior thesis process is a long, but invigorating process. It requires a lot and it needs your attention. The senior thesis is a work we pull together, both old and new things we write. Be it fiction, poetry, screenplay or playwriting, you choose some that speaks to you and take it to the end.…

To finalize the second week of school, The Creative Writing Department went on a field trip to the SF MOMA. We were assigned to find a piece we related to, and to write a poem inspired by it- So we drifted through the Muni downtown, and dispersed throughout the museum, inspecting each piece through our…

Every day in the Creative Writing classroom, underneath the gentle patter of rain or swish of wind outside, the low hum of saxophones from the Conservatory Music department across the field, and one of our own daring voices reading out poetry loud and clear, a far more subtle sound can be heard. The air becomes…

I think Creative Writing has ruined the color yellow for me. Not because I suddenly don’t like the color now that I’ve joined the department. But now I can’t look at it without thinking about Creative Writing. It could be a taxi on the street, the light at an intersection, even the pencil I use…