Author: SOTA Creative Writing

When applying for Creative Writing, my biggest doubts about the department were the two mandatory performances: Poetry in the Fall and Playwriting in the Spring. In middle school, I was painfully introverted, and even attempting to answer a question in class was worrisome. When my first show season at SOTA started, I was caught up…

When I first came into creative writing I hadn’t had a good experience when analyzing texts with other classmates. My first language is Spanish which already made things difficult as I could not enjoy English texts and was often behind in my assignments. Yet due to a speech impediment making it so I cant roll…

Although Creative Writing is a small department in comparison to the other departments at RASOTA, sometimes it can be difficult to get to know your peers that are not in your grade. That is why the buddy collaborations are so fundamental to the tight-knit community that is fostered within Creative Writing.  Every year before we…

I was sitting in the same room. Twenty new faces, yet I hadn’t looked at a single one. There’s a famous idiom that comes to mind when recalling this moment: you can either see a glass as half full or half empty. I’m a strong believer in how thoughts can completely control your perception of…

Since I started in Creative Writing, most of the time I sit around a table or a comfortable place, sharing my poem with a small group of people, where after analyzing it I receive useful feedback. I’ve improved a lot thanks to this community. Now I always make sure to show a great extent of…

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…