Creative Writing Blog
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Covers articles about creative writing, playwriting, fiction, poetry and more. The Creative Writing program at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts is a rigorous, accelerated discipline for highly motivated students who want to study the art and craft of writing.
Creative Writing Blog
1M ago
Since the beginning of the year, our whole department has implemented a daily practice into our routines, freewriting for thirty minutes a day. We are currently in our fiction unit, reading short stories and having fruitful discussions about the embedded meaning within a piece of work. In the past, fiction was intimidating, as I’ve struggled ..read more
Creative Writing Blog
1M ago
In Creative Writing, we have recently begun our fiction unit with an encouraging teacher, Christian Wilburn. We started the unit with perhaps the most important part of writing, the process. The past year and a half I spent in Creative Writing, my work has been inconsistent. Sometimes I would write pieces that I would be ..read more
Creative Writing Blog
1M ago
I have an unfortunate aversion to any sort of schedule. I know this, and I have known this for as long as I’ve ever been forced to follow a schedule. Whether related to soccer practice or taking vitamins, daily tasks and chores have never been my strong suit. I hate procrastinating, but it’s one of ..read more
Creative Writing Blog
1M ago
Fiction has always been a favorite genre of mine. Whenever we can work on the craft of fictional storytelling, I always find myself simultaneously excited and intrigued. I am constantly hypothesizing on what we, as a department, could be doing differently from last school year, and the school year before that. This year, what our ..read more
Creative Writing Blog
1M ago
Under the instructor of our fiction teacher, Christian Wilburn, we have been doing generation exercises in preparation for our final short story project. The goal is to create many different, unfiltered story ideas and let our minds roam, hopefully unearthing a few golden ideas from the rubble. Christian told us to ask questions about preconceived ..read more
Creative Writing Blog
5M ago
I was never sure what it meant to write a poem without making it some fun game about rhyming each line. In elementary and middle school poetry assignments I would try to use the weirdest words I could find, then subsequently attempt to rhyme the word orange. I thought I was so clever using the ..read more
Creative Writing Blog
5M ago
After four years, it’s all going to be over. All of these experiences will culminate in a last few months worthy of remembrance, only to either be cast to dust or cherished; only time knows. This precipice is one most ominous, for it represents the final exit of childhood and the arrival into adulthood. Into ..read more
Creative Writing Blog
5M ago
On Tuesday, October 24th, the Creative Writers are on a field trip to see the Kinship exhibit at SFMoMA, a compilation of six photographers who approach human connection and vulnerability differently. I admit I was not excited to look at pictures in a museum. Where’s the fun in that? The day before, we viewed some ..read more
Creative Writing Blog
5M ago
Poetry has always been a cornerstone of every Creative Writer’s repertoire. This year, there is no exception. Every school year, there has always been a unit on poetry, which would be capped off by a performance sometime in the late months of Fall. Despite this, these units have not once had complaints raised against them ..read more
Creative Writing Blog
5M ago
The Creative Writing department room is loved by many Creative Writers and non-Creative Writers. We house walls of past-show posters, the lion statue whose rocking his yellow cowboy hat, and a widespread rug that entices you to a few minutes of nap time. However, the most beloved of all is the bird clock in the ..read more