Thank you to everyone who participated in our "Magic of Writing" event last month! We enjoyed watching everyone's adventures unfold and seeing them on Instagram. We would like to feature the winner of our event, Emily Minh Huynh! Emily is currently a senior at UF, and we asked her to share a bit about her experience with the event. She was glad to have found out about the event because it aligns with her personal interests.
"I'm a commuter, so I'm not on campus all the time," Minh Huynh said. "I do a lot of fantasy writing, so actually having a reference for a setting kind of really helped guide my writing, almost like a template."
We were curious as to how she began the story writing process, so she shared her experience with us despite a few roadblocks encountered along the way!
"I walked around with a group, but the story I wrote by myself. I started at the Ritz Auditorium, then I came to the Writer's Den, the Witches' Den, the gazebo next, and then the basement of the asylum. The Writer's Den was very open-ended, and I had no idea where the Japanese Garden was!"
Despite the difficulty of some of the locations, Emily was "very impressed with all the props in the Writer's Den." She hopes to see this event happen in the future, with the possibility for more students, faculty, and staff to participate.
To read Emily's story, click here.
Brigitte Galauner (College Librarian for Business, Education, & Social Sciences) presents a commemorative copy of Neil Gaiman's novel The Graveyard Book to Emily (right), as the winner of "The Magic of Writing" event.