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.

Tag: King Leopold’s Ghost

  • 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…