[Top Ten Tuesday] – #95 – A Hero’s Journey Heard Through A Cappella

Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

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This Week’s Theme:
A Hero’s Journey
Heard Through
A Cappella

Initial Thoughts:

(Recommended to be read on the blog as Reader formatting is pretty blergh).

Here’s the thing: I had brain farts as to how to make this topic satirical or “fun” like previous top ten tuesday prompts. Nothing fun really spoke to me so I’m stripping all the fun away and opening up the floor to a genre of music that’s near and dear to me.

Call me some nerdy kid but A cappella music is something I really appreciate it. I’ll be mainly highlighting collegiate level a cappella covers. For the sake of keeping things “bookish”, I’ll be featuring the 12 Steps of the Hero’s Journey that outlines a template of the rise and fall of a hero’s story.

Note: The “opb.” notation will be used as a stand in for ‘originally performed by’. All songs link to the respective artist’s Spotify as it’s the only place that has a repository of recordings.


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[Awards/Tags] — Friends Book Tag

Miscellaneous: Awards/Tags is the tagline to store random posts that don’t really belong elsewhere. They may involve tags, awards, challenges, and other book blogging nonsense.

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Awards/Tags
Friends Book Tag

I thought this tag to be quite fitting to Valentine’s Day because friendship is a close friend to romance and love.

Thanks to Deanna @ A Novel Glimpse and Jesse @ Books at Dawn for tagging me!


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[Think Aloud] – #30 – How Media Has Influenced My Direction of Writing Romance

Think Aloud explores book-related discussions encompassing reading, writing, blogging, and perhaps newsworthy content. The focus is to push the boundaries, stretch the mind, and encourage dialogue within this community. Let’s all think out loud.

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Table Topic:
How Media Has Influenced
My Direction of Writing Romance

Abstract:

Harnessing the wider creative industry to improve how you can write the romance subplot


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