Month: June 2020

Comics’ audience’s memory already contains an entirely fleshed-out story to conjure up with only the slightest reminder

Keywords: commentary , critique , entertainment , essay , film , inspiration , inspirational , memory , motivation , motivational , nostalgia , nostalgic , story , stroytelling , writing

The truth of the matter is that a memory, of any kind, is an incredibly powerful thing. Nostalgia is simply one useful manifestation of memory, and as such it carries a great amount of influence on the audience…and requires a great deal of responsibility not to misuse.

https://disneymagicfanatic.com/2020/06/18/the-power-of-nostalgia-and-how-its-been-misused

It’s only when we have books that blur the lines between genres that make this system seem daunting

Keywords: bookish thingsthoughts , monthly updates

We are just seeing a lot more blurring of the genre lines as new stories are written now, so I guess we are all about to be searching our bookstores longer than before (not that that’s bad). What are your thoughts on the classifications they use to group books? Are they effective? Are there holes? What’s the worst miss-grouping you’ve seen?

https://awritercandream.wordpress.com/2020/06/12/lowdown-on-genres-age-groups-classifying-books