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.
Category: The Freshman Perspective
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Before I joined creative writing, I was in zero active group chats. Now, I’m in two. This number may seem small to those of you group-chat-jugglers, but for an introvert who dislikes a lot of people and doesn’t know what to say to anyone, this is a miracle. My two group chats are “Wiggly Worms,”…
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As a freshman in Creative Writing, I can already tell you that field trips and wondrous days with your classmates will be some of the most memorable moments you make at SOTA. To mark the end of community weeks this year, CW took our annual trip to Aquatic Park. After everyone had changed into their…
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I enter the room with the big door saying Creative Writing. Emily says welcome to everybody but I have my ears blocked so I don’t hear anything, and a big fog is coming over me despite the fact that there’s sun. So, I sit at the nearest table. Nope, wrong place, so I sit at…
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If you had told me a week before Spirit Day that I would be cheering on a hamster ball fight between our director, Emily, and one of our seniors, clad head to toe in my least favorite color and essentially drowning in body glitter, I would have never believed you. Yet, that is exactly what…
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A great example of how the Creative Writing community positively impacts your writing is that each individual truly wants to listen to and support each other’s work. At first, the thought of having everyone gaze upon your pieces might seem intimidating, but as a freshman, I can reassure you that all of your peers—whether upperclassmen…
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I’ve never felt so understood before in my life. Creative Writing is an amazing environment to grow in because everyone is so intelligent, and perceives the world so differently. My short time in CW has already brought a new perspective to the way I see the world and how I interact with it and my…
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My cursor glides over monotonous grey squares, each marked like a tombstone commemorating a missing face with a name my tongue never had to learn to pronounce, names the memory compartment of my brain has never registered with a face. I click the irritating red button at the bottom right of my screen. “Leave meeting.”…
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I have never been particularly excited about writing poetry. I felt as if my work wasn’t “poetic” enough and I would spend hours deleting and rewriting the same line trying to tweak it into perfection. On the first day in Creative writing, I knew that our performance poetry unit was going to be our first,…
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Never before I got into Creative Writing did I actively go to readings. It was a foreign concept until about last week when I pulled up Green Apple Book’s website and picked the soonest reading. It didn’t matter to me the book or the author, I simply intended to go, watch, and go home. It…
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by Amina (’17) Today in C-Dub I, we were joined by the delightful company of shadows (in case any of them are reading this, thanks for visiting, and hopefully we didn’t scare you too much), as we continued workshopping poems we all wrote with a special attention to sound and texture. Basically, our whole poetry…
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