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

Sign up for Yiyun's class on Skillshare! Yiyun Li (http://www.yiyunli.com/) is a Chinese American writer. She has won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her debut novel The Vagrants (http://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 (https://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. Subscribe to Skillshare’s Youtube Channel: http://skl.sh/yt-subscribe Check out all of Skillshare’s classes: http://skl.sh/youtube Like Skillshare on Facebook:   / skillshare   Follow Skillshare on Twitter:   / skillshare   Follow Skillshare on Instagram:   / skillshare