Purgatorio
By LAM Yin Lok
Background
The first ever book and story that I’ve ever written is very flawed. The story is hard to follow, the characters are hard to be invested in, and it tries to cover too much in just 116 pages. However, this is the most proud I’ve felt of something I’ve ever created. Never have I truly felt committed to creating something until this project. That feeling of wanting to get home and work on my project, to jot down new ideas before anything else, is the moment I knew I really do have a passion for what I do. So many people have read and pointed out its flaws. But it’s through this feedback that I knew that from this rough beginning, I will only make better and better things. At the end of the 3 years I’ve been at this school, I am unrecognisable from the person I was before it. I’ve done a ton, lost a bit, grown a lot from it, and here I stand, ready to leave it all behind, to go live on my own abroad.