Teresa Toten was very interesting to listen to. she kept her speech moving and flowing nicely and walked around to make eye contact and make it more casual and personal. She spoke about many of her books, and how her hardships of her youth inspired some of them, and I find that is a reoccurring theme within a lot of authors, because we're told to write about we know, and so if you had a hard childhood, it's easy to write about one.
Teresa mentioned that all her books were failures to her, but its good to fail once in a while, and I think that's a really good message to talk about, especially to a group of kids who are stressing about marks and getting into university.
I also liked how she mentioned that doing good and donating to charities and helping people is good, not because of the good it does for others, but because it makes you feel better when you do it. She told us to do it out of selfishness, which is a very realistic approach. I liked how she made us see negative things like failure in a positive light and positive things like charity in an almost negative way.
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