Heh, I kid because I too have been there! A friend and I concocted reams of what I now realise would count as deeply dubious Narnia fic as kids. Thank god the internet wasn't really around at the time! Though I do realise fandom seems to go through cycles of rather aggressive 'Sue-shaming', talking of entitlement hierarchies, which just seems deeply distasteful and counter-productive in terms of getting people to keep on writing. And of course not all self-inserts are godawful in the least!
I don't see why that model couldn't be adapted lower down the key stages
Exactly - I mean, I have to admit I would have been deeply sniffy about something like that if it had been sprung on me as a teenager, but it seems like a really obvious tactic for engaging kids at younger ages. And yet I can't remember ever encountering any fic-type model myself, or indeed hearing about something similar - apart from your Streetcar experience, which, hm, sounds like a rather overwrought text to start people off with! I suppose it's not exactly an exam tailored exercise, but then UK schooling nowadays seems to vacillate weirdly between cramming for SATs etc and vague, touchy-feely, interactive stuff - so you'd think it would be defensible under the latter model at least! And, as you say, so much less traumatising than stuff like your Malvolio 'tell me what you did in your summer holidays' question - HORRIBLE indeed.
some of the most upsetting vase images there are
I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THAT THOSE MUST BE EXTREMELY UPSETTING. Oh, man.
both of which can, well, tend towards the early 80s in tone
If not indeed the seventies, judging from my journeying around Dreamwidth - which I'm actually finding really refreshing at the moment. But, yes, I feel as though there should be even MOAR META on fandom itself - not that I've even finished working through Stulti's recs list, mind you!
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Date: 2010-09-27 10:03 pm (UTC)Heh, I kid because I too have been there! A friend and I concocted reams of what I now realise would count as deeply dubious Narnia fic as kids. Thank god the internet wasn't really around at the time! Though I do realise fandom seems to go through cycles of rather aggressive 'Sue-shaming', talking of entitlement hierarchies, which just seems deeply distasteful and counter-productive in terms of getting people to keep on writing. And of course not all self-inserts are godawful in the least!
I don't see why that model couldn't be adapted lower down the key stages
Exactly - I mean, I have to admit I would have been deeply sniffy about something like that if it had been sprung on me as a teenager, but it seems like a really obvious tactic for engaging kids at younger ages. And yet I can't remember ever encountering any fic-type model myself, or indeed hearing about something similar - apart from your Streetcar experience, which, hm, sounds like a rather overwrought text to start people off with! I suppose it's not exactly an exam tailored exercise, but then UK schooling nowadays seems to vacillate weirdly between cramming for SATs etc and vague, touchy-feely, interactive stuff - so you'd think it would be defensible under the latter model at least! And, as you say, so much less traumatising than stuff like your Malvolio 'tell me what you did in your summer holidays' question - HORRIBLE indeed.
some of the most upsetting vase images there are
I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THAT THOSE MUST BE EXTREMELY UPSETTING. Oh, man.
both of which can, well, tend towards the early 80s in tone
If not indeed the seventies, judging from my journeying around Dreamwidth - which I'm actually finding really refreshing at the moment. But, yes, I feel as though there should be even MOAR META on fandom itself - not that I've even finished working through Stulti's recs list, mind you!