Genre of Interest

Writing Exercise
Genre of Interest
Matt Taflinger

Interests: Sports
Music
Reading
Traveling
Film

I am most passionate about music, reading and participating in sports. The most important thing in my life as I’m writing this would be music. I’m not sure why I’m so passionate about music, but I just know that I really couldn’t function without it. During high school, there’s no question the most important thing to me was golf. That pretty much what I lived for, but now since this school lacks a men’s team I can’t be as passionate about it. The first experience I had with music was most likely with my dad at a young age. He loves 60’s British rock, in particular, the Rolling Stones. My first concert was with him at a Stones concert when I was seven; still to this day it’s my favorite concert I’ve attended. I was also very young when I had my first experience with sports, which is also a very interesting topic to me. I pretty much participated in every sport that had a boy’s team in my town. I played soccer, baseball, hockey, football, basketball, tennis and golf. There was never a moment where I had nothing to do as a kid.

5 Genres that interest me: Short story, song lyrics, musical reviews, screenplays and documentary

The most enticing writing genres for me are song lyrics, musical reviews, Newspaper columns and screenplays. I read reviews of new albums and songs pretty much every week, whether it’s online or in a magazine. I also enjoy making up my own reviews of albums with my friends. Writing song lyrics and analyzing song lyrics has always been something that I have liked to do. I’ve always wanted to write a screenplay but I’ve never got around to starting one. Translating my main interests of sports, music, reading, traveling and film to certain genres of writing is pretty simple. Take sports, music, reading and film. For these three of my interests I could write lyrics, a screenplay, reviews of books or films and I could also write a newspaper column on the latest sports news. Criticizing as well as praising music is something I love to do; this goes hand in hand when talking about magazine or newspaper articles on certain musicians or new albums. Analyzing films is also a huge interest to me, which is why I really liked our last project even though I didn’t pick to use my film analysis outline. Writing about sports is a relatively easy thing to do. Either writing a newspaper article about different sports teams or blogging about information about sports thats on your mind. Choosing to write a short article on Detroit sports teams is something I want to do and am most likely going to do for this project