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Six. Sentence(s). Story. -the Wakefield Doctrine-

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Like this, except different

Like this, except different

 

Am in my ‘Hors d’oeuvres and light snicky-snacks’, phase of my psyching up for a Six. Like the adult, (as in parents, not theme), parties when growing up, as kids, we would get to drink tomato juice without it being Thanksgiving, and Planter’s Peanuts!  (there was that ‘key’ attached to the bottom of the can, to open it, like a tin of sardines), I loved those peanuts, they had enough salt on ’em to kill a family of snails, and coke and ginger ale! and, (to a child), inexplicable tonic water (hey! it looked soda, it even came in a soda bottle!! a totally un-appreciated life lesson, indecipherable until the onset of puberty). Soda in good glasses, (not the colorful opaque plastic 8 oz glasses that we drank pretty much everything from), and, because it was an adult social occasion, there’d be plenty of coasters and ‘company ashtrays’ and your mother smelled like perfume.  That’s kinda what I do, prior to trying to find words that have sufficient love for each other as to cause them to form word-families of sentences.

zoe does this thing, every Thursday, called the Six Sentence Story. Participants are provided with a prompt word and challenged to produce a story. You are invited.

This week’s prompt is Post.

Come on, you can do this!” he thought, the morning light filling the window, replacing the fluorescent privacy of the desk lamp.

He enjoyed this challenge to his creativity and he worried about his competence in crafting a story to meet accepted standards. Resigned to the fact that the Post he had cobbled together, (stopping to smile at the visual the came with the etymology of the expression), and suspecting the exacting preciseness of the words, as they were displayed on the computer screen, might be masking an inadequacy of grammar and rhetoric, like the 5 year old’s birthday present, over-attention to securing the wrapping paper, resulting in more tape than wrapping. As he was about to hit ‘Publish’, he had a stomach-wrenching thought,

Shit! do exclamations always indicate the end of a sentence?

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Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one

Comments

  1. ivywalker says:

    Shit yeah! No worries… We’re easy here…. Agonizing process huh? Frist?

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      let me finish washing the arterial blood off my keyboard…. what was that about the process?

      FRIST!

  2. luckyjc007 says:

    The “publish” key can be nerve racking and you seem to get flashing warnings in your head that Maybe…your story needs more work before its debut. After the key is punched….your work is out there…ready or not! :)

  3. oldegg says:

    I loved that you included two exclamation marks in your offering to confuse us even more as to whether you followed the six sentence rule or not!

  4. dyannedillon says:

    I think it would be a better indicator of success in school if the writing portions of the ACT and SAT had a six sentence limit. If you can’t say it in six sentences, maybe it just shouldn’t be said!
    Most excellent post.
    Did your family have aluminum tumblers?

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      no! we had the plastic (colored, so everyone could have their own glass… after the inevitable fighting over color…

  5. This is exactly how I feel when I’ve been up all night writing… the morning light filling the window, replacing the fluorescent privacy of the desk lamp. You’ve captured that transition perfectly.