How to Transform a Situation into a Story - Writing with Yiyun Li

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Yiyun Li (www.yiyunli.com/) is a Chinese American writer. She has won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her debut novel The Vagrants (www.amazon.com/Vagrants-Novel-...) was shortlisted for the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow. She is a contributing editor of Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space (apublicspace.org/), and currently teaches at UC Davis.
This video lesson explains Yiyun's differentiation from a simple, everyday situation, and an actual story worth telling.
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[@wissemkheroufi3564]

I love how every single detail grows into an entirely developed and tangled story! (y) However, sometimes the transformation process becomes very frustrating trying to give a different rendering of the daily, mundane events.

[@eeshitapotter]

Thank you Yi Yun Li....Love your words 🌟

[@arbonac]

Well done

[@analuizadamasceno9041]

とうございます」、

[@wesleypair74]

the sound is not good I am quite disappointed