The Dramas with Genres

When I started reading this chapter I had no idea what a writing genre was. Sure I knew what a normal genre is – I’ve seen plenty of movies and can tell you for sure I would take the horror classification over a rom-com any day, and it’s not too hard for me to pick out which category of music Taylor Swift belongs to as opposed to Kendrick Lamar. However, genres in writing I had never heard of. My first thought was that it was talking about something like sci-fi novels or war stories or biographies. However, reading this chapter really cleared that up for me. I learned that a genre is actually really flexible. It can be a memoir, an opera, a documentary, an article, a blog, or even an obituary. Genres in writing are actually much easier to understand because they are not so concentrated on one type of storyline a work has to follow. Genres change and adjust according to the aspects a writer has to consider. Things like voice, tone, and especially audience are all features that factor into which genre is chosen for a particular purpose. It is comforting to know that because movie classifications and writing classifications are decently different, I probably will not run into the rom-com version of the movie genre in writing.