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The collection of Top Pickers in Australia has a total of nine short stories. It records the profile of this generation of Taiwanese as working holiday makers in Australia through different stories in each chapter.
Top Pickers in Australia starts from my own experience, and most stories are created around Australian areas where Chinese people are active, mainly in Brisbane, Caboolture, and Sunnybank. In the process of creation, I try to restore scenes in the writing, with Google street view to add details of the scene and expand scenarios of characters in the story. Under conveyance of the texts of the establishment of the scene and the relationship between the characters, hoping to show that working holiday makers in Australia must relocate constantly to meet the needs of work.
While recalling the scene, I also tried to strengthen the element of "time". For example, "Ten O'clock" especially uses the countdown as the sub-node of each paragraph. In this story, there is a linear narration leading to the ending of the story. At the same time, the character's first-person narration interspersed the story to retrace all the plots. In Social Media Manager and A Buddhist Girl Monologue, there are also a large number of time marks that are intertwined in a multi-line state. By writing these chapters highlight the oppression of time brought by when working holiday makers make a living in different places.
In addition to the writing of history, scenes, and stories, when creating Top Pickers in Australia, I tried to integrate theatrical thinking into the literary context. In terms of structure, try to make the story have a sense of twist and contrast, such as Harpo, who is about to from zero to hero, but accidentally goes into a desperate situation in What a Tree Full of Tears Looks Like, or Minmin in Lucky, who falls into the magical trap at the end. In terms of characters, using "character development" as the basic concept, like Phone changes from being aimless to goal-oriented in The Wind Keeps Blowing, and Angus in A Buddhist Girl Monologue, who initially goes with the flow change to take a plunge.
While creating Top Pickers in Australia, I merged the "form" and "format" of drama into the work, hoping to cultivate different writing voices. In Checker, import the context of the script, keep only "action" as much as possible or describe the scene in a simplified way, and try to write the "action instruction" in parentheses. A Buddhist Girl Monologue is created as a solo script as the title of the story suggests, which can be a monopolylogue of a one-man show, or a solo serial that performs by multiple people perform. Top Pickers in Australia expresses the subtext of the characters by combining the first-person and the third-person narrative in parentheses.
Although it was very difficult in the process of writing, I knew that there was still a lot of room for effort, but for the interaction between literature and drama, I got great joy in writing in "Kaishou Aoke", and at the same time reminded myself that I must work harder Improve your vocabulary and writing skills. Although it was very difficult in the process of writing, and I knew that there was still a lot of room for effort, I got great joy in writing Top Pickers in Australia about the interaction between literature and drama. At the same time, I reminded myself that I must work harder to improve my mastery of words and writing ability.
Top Pickers in Australia not only combined my experience as a working holiday maker in Australia but also interviewed many backpackers, covering the east coast, west coast, and the off-shore island of Australia from 2008 to 2022. In the process of interviewing the backpackers, I learned a lot of experiences from their stories, trying to integrate "Covid-19" and "Me too" and other current issues, hoping to make this Taiwanese Australian working holiday travel history more complete. |