Yes to Martin. I really really like, especially in high school stories, when the 'bad' kids are sympathetic. I'm willing to write off adults, but kids screw up because they're scared or insecure or misled.
I also like that they didn't go to the other end, where his bad behaviour was rewarded or just shrugged off.
Yes! I do boggle occasionally at the shift in viewing habits. When I was a kid, there was one TV in the house, and almost every night we watched shows as a family. As a 10yo and right through high school, on a Friday I learned what Australian native plants made good privacy hedges, because my mum wanted to watch a home and gardening show. And half the kids and adults I knew watched that show, or any of the other shows I watched. So a couple of hours every night were spent on stories that were shared by my family and also between generations in general.
Now so much of what tweens and teens view is online, and isn't shared at all with their parents or even siblings. There might be a couple of shows shared by the family, but not nightly viewing. And nothing shared by the family is watched as widely as those shows when we were kids, or shared between generations.
There are all sorts of interesting conversations about changes in the way that we consume media these days, but I'm most fascinated with how it's separating the cultural world of kids and adults.
People occasionally suggest I write a YA novel, and (aside from not actually wanting to do that sort of work) there's just no way I could reasonably capture teens social media lives these days. Even just ten years ago I probably could have done a passable job of portraying how kids interact with each other, but now the way they use social media is a total mystery to me. And I know teens a hell of a lot better than most adults I know.
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Date: 2018-04-25 02:23 am (UTC)I also like that they didn't go to the other end, where his bad behaviour was rewarded or just shrugged off.
Yes! I do boggle occasionally at the shift in viewing habits. When I was a kid, there was one TV in the house, and almost every night we watched shows as a family. As a 10yo and right through high school, on a Friday I learned what Australian native plants made good privacy hedges, because my mum wanted to watch a home and gardening show. And half the kids and adults I knew watched that show, or any of the other shows I watched. So a couple of hours every night were spent on stories that were shared by my family and also between generations in general.
Now so much of what tweens and teens view is online, and isn't shared at all with their parents or even siblings. There might be a couple of shows shared by the family, but not nightly viewing. And nothing shared by the family is watched as widely as those shows when we were kids, or shared between generations.
There are all sorts of interesting conversations about changes in the way that we consume media these days, but I'm most fascinated with how it's separating the cultural world of kids and adults.
People occasionally suggest I write a YA novel, and (aside from not actually wanting to do that sort of work) there's just no way I could reasonably capture teens social media lives these days. Even just ten years ago I probably could have done a passable job of portraying how kids interact with each other, but now the way they use social media is a total mystery to me. And I know teens a hell of a lot better than most adults I know.