[ SECRET POST #2207 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2207 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[meredith44]

I don't mind kid!fic, but only if it is written well. As a teacher, I cringe at the children in at least 90% of the kid!fic I read. And most of the time I end up backbuttoning.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I was reading a kidfic the other day and I thought the kid was supposed to be maybe 5-ish, then later in the fic found out they were just turning 10. People really need to do a little more research when writing kids. Or a lot more.

[meredith44]

People really need to do a little more research when writing kids. Or a lot more.

I totally and completely agree.

[(Anonymous)]

Very true, and not just fanficcers either. I remember reading children's/YA fiction as a tween and go o.0 over how authors more or less consistently wrote kids as way too immature or (rarely) too mature.

[dazzledfirestar]

Yeah... I could probably get into kid!fic a little more often if the kids were, y'know... kids. Apparently that's a challenge most people don't care to rise to.

[meredith44]

It is difficult, I guess. Especially if you are trying to write a child that is old enough to talk and interact (versus a baby), and you have not been around children much. But still, I would like at least a modicum of accuracy.

[(Anonymous)]

I love kid fic, but a lot of it does have really, really badly written kids. They either read as way too young or way too old for the age they're supposed to be.

(Then again, I have the same problem with a lot of TV shows and movies doing a shitty job writing kids. A lot of people just can't write kids well or believably.)

[meredith44]

I'm generally more okay with television and movies. Because at least they have to get the kids to actually say and do the things they want them to say and do. So they can't be quite as far off as they can in fic. But, yeah, there are some issues there too sometimes.

I can understand somewhat when writing dialog for kids. Because if you haven't been around kids talking, you might not know exactly what they sound like. Plus, there is variation, especially when kids are little. But skills and things should never be gotten wrong because that stuff is so easily researched. I don't want to see a two-year-old sleeping all the time like a newborn does. (I think the author liked the idea of a kid, but didn't want to actually deal with the kid.) I don't want to see a four year old that can't put sentences together. Things like that.

[(Anonymous)]

That may be why I have less tolerance for kidfic now than I used to. I knew fuck all about young kids and parenting when I was younger and while my experience is still relatively limited (I don't have kids) I have a much better sense of how kids behave and particularly how they relate to adults.