Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Jun 23 2010
Scottrade is inspiring me to write a very bad novel
There's a very talented actor named Brad Norman who's been showing us all how not to help people trade stocks. He and fellow actors portray frustrated workers for a sleazy competitor who keep losing all their clients to those people at the superior Scottrade with its Knowledge Center and Seven-dollar online trades. We laugh at their antics, but I started thinking about what would happen if I tried to write a fictional story that way. I could do everything wrong. I could change the protagonist's eye color every time I mentioned him. I could carry about the setting for 12 pages, using three adjectives for every noun. When the protagonist meets his love interest, I could get her name mixed up with that of her rival and have the reader so confused that nothing would end the misery until he or she gave up and skipped to the last page. But there would be no last...
posted at: 16:03 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
There's a very talented actor named Brad Norman who's been showing us all how not to help people trade stocks. He and fellow actors portray frustrated workers for a sleazy competitor who keep losing all their clients to those people at the superior Scottrade with its Knowledge Center and Seven-dollar online trades. We laugh at their antics, but I started thinking about what would happen if I tried to write a fictional story that way. I could do everything wrong. I could change the protagonist's eye color every time I mentioned him. I could carry about the setting for 12 pages, using three adjectives for every noun. When the protagonist meets his love interest, I could get her name mixed up with that of her rival and have the reader so confused that nothing would end the misery until he or she gave up and skipped to the last page. But there would be no last...
posted at: 16:03 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
