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.
Author: SOTA Creative Writing
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by Avi (’15) Ever wonder where your characters live? Where they walk their dog? What their neighborhood is like? Who their neighbors are? A sense of place makes a story believable. Setting is immensely important; where a character lives greatly influences their actions and thoughts. I like to visualize the town where my characters are…
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by Bailey (’15) 1. Sheep. Ever since I was very small, since before I could even talk I have been terrified of sheep. So terrified of sheep that I vividly remember my mother trying to put me into a dress with a fuzzy appliqué sheep on it and screaming hysterically and not being able to…
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by Noa (’16) If you’re anything like me, you may come across a point in your life when you find yourself staring at a blank document or notebook page or Textedit (your free Word trial ran out), with an assignment due tomorrow and absolutely no idea what to write about. You probably feel a bit drained, as if…
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Congratulations to Maya Litauer (’15), who is being published in Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters. Look out for her poem “The Peach Fuzz Above Her Lip” in their 2012 Fall issue. Congrats!
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We here at SOTA, and especially we here at the prideful department of Creative Writing are proud of what we do, inside and outside of school. We also like to show off when our alumni do newsworthy things. A little secret: we’re kind of narcissists. But that’s okay. Notable C-Dub alum, Sayre Quevedo, was mentioned in a…
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by Molly (’15) There is a mess of pillows in the Creative Writing room. They are solid-colored squares and circles of red and black, and are indisputably chic. They are often used as headrests during Sustained Silent Reading and can also be used as devices to hide Colin with when Heather takes attendance or to…
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by Mykel (’14) Love is “I don’t think the second person really serves the character development in this piece and also stop it with the italicized song lyrics.” Love is “HEATHER YOU DID NOT GIVE US ENOUGH WARNING ABOUT THIS HUGE ASSIGNMENT I HAVE COLLEGES TO APPLY TO.” Love is “buy our CDs, I promise…
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by Jules (’14) The thing that I find really engaging about forming and leading a band is that it forces me into a leadership role that I wouldn’t otherwise be in, and I get to take the lead in a sort of communal ecstasy that not a lot of people get to experience. To hear…
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by Hazel (’13) Recently, Heather set aside a day for the CDubs to help plan out next year’s curriculum. The beginning of this year, while certainly interesting and multi-disciplinary, was not the ultra-productive first two months that usually fuels our fall show, and so a little reorganizing was in order for fall, 2013. The seniors…
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