Comments on: Wall Street as (Writing) Metaphor http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/ At least 65 percent not depressing. Tue, 15 May 2012 03:32:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sex scenes at starbucks http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-5938 sex scenes at starbucks Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:10:38 +0000 http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/#comment-5938 <i>you win the award for best screen name du jour</i> Thanks. So I can count on you to come running to my defense when Starbucks sues me? you win the award for best screen name du jour
Thanks. So I can count on you to come running to my defense when Starbucks sues me?

]]> By: Bookfraud http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-5936 Bookfraud Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:01:57 +0000 http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/#comment-5936 <b>bernita</b>: i don't think characters' language is a sign of timidity; it's a sign of timidity if they would say "fuck" but you don't want to put it in there. something tells me you don't fear taking risks. <b>nova</b>: thank you for the kind words. i'm glad you liked the posts (they weren't always fun to write). i also often wonder if i take enough risks in my fiction, but also if i take too many (i.e., you can get away with flying grandmothers if you're garcia-marquez, but not if you're bookfraud). the key for me is to take risks with emotion and tone, which can grow arid in my fiction without conscious tending. bernita: i don’t think characters’ language is a sign of timidity; it’s a sign of timidity if they would say “fuck” but you don’t want to put it in there. something tells me you don’t fear taking risks.

nova: thank you for the kind words. i’m glad you liked the posts (they weren’t always fun to write).

i also often wonder if i take enough risks in my fiction, but also if i take too many (i.e., you can get away with flying grandmothers if you’re garcia-marquez, but not if you’re bookfraud). the key for me is to take risks with emotion and tone, which can grow arid in my fiction without conscious tending.

]]> By: nova http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-5891 nova Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:12:19 +0000 http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/#comment-5891 I was just completely taken by your "feelin' the hate" post below (besides, I heart Henry Rollins), and now this about risks... wondering if I'm taking enough... I'll be back for sure. I was just completely taken by your “feelin’ the hate” post below (besides, I heart Henry Rollins), and now this about risks… wondering if I’m taking enough… I’ll be back for sure.

]]> By: Bernita http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-5883 Bernita Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:52:38 +0000 http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/#comment-5883 Look, I'm so timid my characters seldom use the F-word. Look, I’m so timid my characters seldom use the F-word.

]]> By: bookfraud http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-5882 bookfraud Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:33:35 +0000 http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/#comment-5882 <b>5redpandas</b>: i'm glad someone received uplift and inspiration, especially after my whiny little bitchfest in the previous post. you could really help my ddw by sending me some money. cash, please. <b>tai</b>: bookfraud investment corp. (or "bic") will go public in the world's biggest ipo soon. you can buy shares in it then, or, as i recommend as the world's best financial advisor, you can get in on the ground floor and send mr. bookfraud all of your spare cash. if you have none, knock over a bank. after all, that's where the money is. <b>verbivore</b>: damn them indeed. it's all about risk -- take a big one and write a great book. do you have any spare change lying around you can send? 5redpandas: i’m glad someone received uplift and inspiration, especially after my whiny little bitchfest in the previous post.

you could really help my ddw by sending me some money. cash, please.

tai: bookfraud investment corp. (or “bic”) will go public in the world’s biggest ipo soon. you can buy shares in it then, or, as i recommend as the world’s best financial advisor, you can get in on the ground floor and send mr. bookfraud all of your spare cash. if you have none, knock over a bank. after all, that’s where the money is.

verbivore: damn them indeed. it’s all about risk — take a big one and write a great book.

do you have any spare change lying around you can send?

]]> By: verbivore at The Reading Writer http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-5859 verbivore at The Reading Writer Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:47:56 +0000 http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/#comment-5859 "In emotional or intellectual terms these writers take chances others couldn’t stomach. A great work of fiction does not fear risk but embraces it." Absolutely. Damn them. “In emotional or intellectual terms these writers take chances others couldn’t stomach. A great work of fiction does not fear risk but embraces it.”
Absolutely.
Damn them.

]]> By: Tai http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-5846 Tai Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:43:34 +0000 http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/#comment-5846 Is Bookfraud Investment Corp. a publicly traded company? I wish to purchase some stock. Is Bookfraud Investment Corp. a publicly traded company? I wish to purchase some stock.

]]> By: 5redpandas http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-5845 5redpandas Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:38:49 +0000 http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/#comment-5845 I found this post oddly uplifting and inspiring even while you lay bare the fact that I will (probably) never make as much money as an investment banker. I'll put that risk into my next book. I agree that (in theory at least) the best way to spend money is on what I call drinkin', drugin', and whorin'. So I'll keep my chump change to myself for my own version of DDW. Still, good luck with the solicitations! I found this post oddly uplifting and inspiring even while you lay bare the fact that I will (probably) never make as much money as an investment banker. I’ll put that risk into my next book.

I agree that (in theory at least) the best way to spend money is on what I call drinkin’, drugin’, and whorin’. So I’ll keep my chump change to myself for my own version of DDW.

Still, good luck with the solicitations!

]]> By: bookfraud http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-5843 bookfraud Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:02:15 +0000 http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/#comment-5843 <b>j.</b>: we are kind of crazy, aren't we? but what would we do with all that money, besides hookers, coke, and ferraris we crash while taking a hooker back to our place, high on coke? well, that's what i would do. <b>sex scenes at starbucks</b>: thanks, too, for your visit. glad you like what you've seen. that makes one of us. you win the award for best screen name du jour. <b>anti-wife</b>: you bet i do. euros preferred, but i'll take everything but uruguayan and mongolian dough. j.: we are kind of crazy, aren’t we? but what would we do with all that money, besides hookers, coke, and ferraris we crash while taking a hooker back to our place, high on coke?

well, that’s what i would do.

sex scenes at starbucks: thanks, too, for your visit. glad you like what you’ve seen. that makes one of us.

you win the award for best screen name du jour.

anti-wife: you bet i do. euros preferred, but i’ll take everything but uruguayan and mongolian dough.

]]> By: Anti-Wife http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/comment-page-1/#comment-5842 Anti-Wife Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:20:05 +0000 http://bookfraud.com/2008/04/02/wall-street-as-writing-metaphor/#comment-5842 Do you accept foreign currency? Do you accept foreign currency?

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