You know, I'm not even sure kids today would notice anything wrong with the head-hopping. I don't think they spend a lot of days working on creative fiction any more. I learned all this stuff in junior high. Man, I hated every time my English teacher would tell me, "show, don't tell." I hated her because I really didn't get it. Took me until college to finally understand why she kept writing it all over my papers, lol.
But judging on the way some of these kids write fanfic... they have no beginning knowledge of writing. No basics to build on. Which... is fine as long as they want to learn. But none of them do. God forbid you give some creative criticism to help them.
I guess I find it utterly sad that as a people, Americans have become increasingly proud of their ignorance. They wear it like a badge. Too much teaching to a test and not enough critical thinking any more. Kids forget all the crap they learned for the test and never learned the thinking part so they grow up to be the kind of people that have no use for grammar, write in text speak all the time and get pissed if you ever point out their errors. Sad.
My husband is like that. His writing is atrocious. He writes like a barely literate 11yo. I cringe every time I look at it but if I try and correct him or give him some advice (this was for his resume and some other important things) he gets mad and acts like I'm being superior. His whole family is like that. They all sound like they barely have an 8th grade education (a crappy 8th grade education). I find it amazing anyone from that town ever makes it to college because all the kids I know there (my nephews, their friends) are all idiots and proud of it.
That kind of went on a tangent. I did finish the book last night, head-hopping and all. I think I got kind of used to it so it wasn't as jarring. Mostly my brain would just skim over it and go "la-ti-da, I'm not going to think about it." The story was still way unbelievable but it's probably something 11 and 12 year olds would like. I told Meagan about it the other night and yesterday she got home from school and demanded to know what else had happened in the book, lol. I told her to read it herself but that would be too much effort for her. Grrr.
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Date: 3 Jan 2013 05:07 pm (UTC)But judging on the way some of these kids write fanfic... they have no beginning knowledge of writing. No basics to build on. Which... is fine as long as they want to learn. But none of them do. God forbid you give some creative criticism to help them.
I guess I find it utterly sad that as a people, Americans have become increasingly proud of their ignorance. They wear it like a badge. Too much teaching to a test and not enough critical thinking any more. Kids forget all the crap they learned for the test and never learned the thinking part so they grow up to be the kind of people that have no use for grammar, write in text speak all the time and get pissed if you ever point out their errors. Sad.
My husband is like that. His writing is atrocious. He writes like a barely literate 11yo. I cringe every time I look at it but if I try and correct him or give him some advice (this was for his resume and some other important things) he gets mad and acts like I'm being superior. His whole family is like that. They all sound like they barely have an 8th grade education (a crappy 8th grade education). I find it amazing anyone from that town ever makes it to college because all the kids I know there (my nephews, their friends) are all idiots and proud of it.
That kind of went on a tangent. I did finish the book last night, head-hopping and all. I think I got kind of used to it so it wasn't as jarring. Mostly my brain would just skim over it and go "la-ti-da, I'm not going to think about it." The story was still way unbelievable but it's probably something 11 and 12 year olds would like. I told Meagan about it the other night and yesterday she got home from school and demanded to know what else had happened in the book, lol. I told her to read it herself but that would be too much effort for her. Grrr.