Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
It’s once again that time of week, when zoe invites us to put to the test, our:
- skills (?) damn! that’s the hard part (and, oddly enough, the fun part) of this ‘hop. Of course, no matter how much bearing ‘skills’ have on coming up with a Six Sentence Story may be subject to debate, I will lay claim to a certain, ‘backyard mechanic’ (to employ an old and out-of-date expression) capability with this ‘writing’.
- talent (?) …god, I hope so!
- determination (?) sure, ‘where angels fear to tread, yo’
enough ‘analyzin and dramatizin’ I strongly recommend you join us on this week’s ‘Six Sentence Story‘ (brought to you by Friend of the Doctrine, zoe)
“Are you sure?” his voice conveying a sincere desire to please, yet failed to mask the threat that colored his words, the aggressive handicap that is such a persistent quality in the talented-yet-insecure.
“Yes, this really is what I hoped it would be,” feeling an all too familiar weariness, she tried to recapture her original sense of resolve that her wants and needs were not of secondary importance.
Moving over to the side slightly did nothing to reduce the increasingly unpleasant effects of his scrutiny, an all too familiar thought grew to life, ‘How the hell did this become about me?’
“I can do better! Tell me what you really want and no matter what it takes, I’ll do it!” the eagerness to please evaporating under his growing need for validation.
Reaching past him, she pressed the button marked, ‘Power’ and the display went black, taking with it the image of her very first, custom-designed, website.
“You really are the best, it’s everything I dreamed it would be, and I’m totally content with the content.”
About clarkscottroger
Dude. You’re not linked up. And I’m FRIST!
FRIST you are…. thanks for the reminder (I have a reason for not initially linking up, but it will sound like I have the biggest ego in the world)
cmon fess up!
Tell…
(as long as you promise not to tell anyone!)
…so I finished my Post, published it and went to z’s to link up. There already, maybe 6 others in there, I saw my face (on zoe’s Post) and thought, ‘huh! my post must have somehow automatically linked itself’ and left.
lol
I really love this: “…the aggressive handicap that is such a persistent quality in the talented-yet-insecure” How very true.
Thank you
Aggressive handicap resonated with me, too. Wow, Clark, the photo is great. Sure sends your (my) mind in a difference direction.
It was the “talented-yet-insecure” that got me.
it’s a phrase that I kinda identified with… lol
Yup. I get that completely. Although the insecure part eclipses the ability to be comfortable with the admission of the talented part. Ya know?
the photo thing has always been one of my favorite elements in blogging…. and it’s not just finding a really good photo (for a Post)! What’s really fun is when the photo ends up being way better than you thought it might be (sometimes I get the photo and write the post, other times (mostly) it’s write the post and find a photo) but sometimes something happens and the photo contributes something to what is written, in ways completely un-expected.
Great take on the Cue, and surprise ending…..I was was going in a different direction as well. :)
Speaking of surprise ending… you did a heck of job your-own-self on your Post
very twisty! Very nice! Well done! Thanks for letting me poke fun at you today…not that I asked or anything. sorry :( … Im so glad you have chosed to do this hop… I really look forward to your stories!
this is my favorite place to work on that writing thing (too bad it’s taking so long* but it’s fun nonetheless)
* i.e. getting good enough so that writing the Doctrine book would be…well, easy (lol I know!)
This was awesome, Clark! I loved the way you told this story, creating the relationship in our minds; you had us going right down to the finish line, Powerful word play!
Funny thing about that, I was kinda as surprised at how it turned out because, as far as I can tell, I started out ‘writing for the ending’… if that makes any sense.
Oh man! Double triple bazillion points for using content and content!!!
(lol) thank you, thank you very much (Elvis voice there)
Reading the comments, I see I’m not the only one that didn’t see that coming.
As you see in my Reply to Josie, I saw that coming from the start, I just didn’t know how I was going to get there, lol
Like daughter, like mother. I may be too visual. The photo took me an entirely different direction!
Found myself wondering whether to keep reading. .
Good six sentence story.
Pat
I’d say ‘thank you’ if I could say that I wrote to that end, (the suggestive double entendre beginning). (I think I mentioned it in a comment below), of the ways that I find myself writing these 6 sentence stories, often I have the ending in mind and then try to get there. I knew that I wanted to use ‘content’ in both ways, content and content so (and stop me if I’m going on too long… a very big part of the fun I’m discovering is the ‘how the heck did they do that?’ aspect of the whole ‘writing thing’)
Then I realized that there had to be (at least two people*), such being my current level of skill.
That being said, I did find and use the photo (an exercise almost as much fun as the writing) that is with the post and that was kinda tipping the scales…
You know the really scary thing about writing? (At least from the perspective of a clark), the stories that people like and/or respond to are those that I’ve managed to imbue with some degree of emotional content, and the only way I’ve been able to do that is to find something within my past (either real or imagined) to ‘base it on’…. the attitudes and expectations (in some of these stories) tend to be real and that’s a pretty scary concept, when you stop and think about it.
ya know?
thanks for the question/comment! it gives me much to think about. (… note to self: suppose I wrote a story without a photo! maybe a crowd of people…maybe even no dialog!)
*hey! I always have two people, I should try a threesome!!
** yes, lol, that was deliberate, my scottian aspect having a little fun,