Workshop 2 Guan Chao Liu

Guan here, this workshop starred Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn, which I’m SURE most of you have read.  So, since all of us were there, or were supposed to be there, there’s no need for me to summarize what he told us about. So it turns out that the idea for his story was based off a real life event, meaning he wasn’t very creative. Not bashing him though, since it certainly takes quite a lot of skill to write about it skillfully like he did. I’m glad he chose to speak about how he wrote the book rather than talking about school-related stuff and encouraging us to succeed.  I found it a rather interesting workshop, at least more than the last one, aside from the questioning session near the end, mostly because I didn’t like the students’ questions. Would have been more enjoyable if it did not force me to stay in school later than I would have preferred.