Today's reading is on the use of nostalgia in our writing. White says that when we age we have even more opportunities to use nostalgia. Also because everyone can identify with nostalgia it is easy to move them through the use of nostalgia. When/if we write memoirs we need to include nostalgic experiences.
FOR FURTHER REFLECTION:
Nostalgia captures life's transitions and evoke some of our most emotional experiences. It creates both negative and positive feelings. "By capturing the feelings of nostalgia, we are, in fact, giving our readers a rewarding emotional experiences."
Today's "TRY THIS" assignment.
1. Take yourself on a nostalgic trip through your past: the homesickness you experienced when you went off to college; memories of your grandparent's home; the close friends you had when growing up; the happy sad moments you shared at weddings, confirmations, bar/bat mitzvah, and so on. Write a journal entry for each of these nostalgic memories.
2. Select one of the entries you wrote for number one and turn it into a short story or personal essay.
Although I don't really have time for this today I really need to work this up for Hub Pages and Examiner.com and then work one or more into a possible magazine submission. However, I will not be able to spend much time on this today because I am going to go to an AA meeting tonight and pick up my 27 year chip. Man, I never would have believed I would ever made it this far.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment