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Six Sentence Story – the Wakefield Doctrine-

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Mid-week already. Time to begin the wonderful/horrible, simple/impossible process of writing a Six Sentence Story what I can link up with zoe and them.

If I make it sound like an unpleasant chore, I apologize. The fact of the matter, this bloghop provides me with both lessons and encouragement in my quest to learn to write real good. The lessons are free. There are writer/participants here that, in no uncertain terms, have a way with words. (As opposed to have their way with words, which is more the case with Keith and D.Avery both of whom, metaphorically sitting in the back of the class and barely repressing laughter, are both on a first name basis with).

Not all that different from others with an ambition to improve my craft, I find myself reading the ‘Sixes’ of certain writers who weave their stories with an economy of words that leaves me shaking my head in bemused wonder. Like the proverbial ‘carrot-on-a-stick’ I have to stop myself from writing faster (and more) when I find the germ of an idea. Looking at what Paul, Irene and Deborah Lee write with such elegantly spare descriptions that nevertheless evoke emotion, I find hope. To balance it all I can go to Pat or Mimi or Josie, who have that really cool thing of writing what reads like people sound when they talk. However, every now and then I’m in the mood to burn down the house, in which case Reena and Neel are always there to help with the gas cans.

OK! limbered and stretched   …where the heck is that prompt word!! Bring it on! I’ll murdalize the puny……”

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“Don’t, don’t say anything.” Turning away, the woman felt a part of her heart reaching out to the non-specific allure of the night-shrouded landscape; the room behind her, it’s single, dim lamp growing from a cluttered desk, re-cast her face with a waning crescent shadow.

After a tempestuous marriage to a man of fire and will, the woman found her young-girl-desire for excitement replaced by the understanding that no one leaves a battlefield without scars.

When she first met the man, now behind the ramparts of a paper and book castle, his dry wit seemed the epitome of sophistication, his careful consideration of every decision and action, grounded maturity. In the first days of their growing connection, his emotional reticence grew into permission (and encouragement) to build a new scale model of the world that (many of us) keep hidden within, the better to safeguard our hopes and dreams.

“As an attorney and your husband, I’m compelled to advise you that the Doctrine of Mutual Mistake entitles us to share the blame; conversely it imposes a duty to make every effort to accept responsibility, surely we owe it to ourselves to try.”

 

 

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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

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  1. Damn!
    Good☺

  2. UP says:

    Great optics

  3. valj2750 says:

    Ah. And she’ll agree to anything to get free. The Doctrine of Mutual Mistake. Do they have one of those in Congress?

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      lol
      these Sixes, they funny (in the way we stumble onto ideas….-) the Doctrine of Mutual Mistake is actually a real thing that I came across as I wandered the internet yesterday.

  4. Having never heard of The Doctrine of Mutual Mistake before, I found it intriguing. I suppose that is similar in substance to no fault divorce, or no fault auto insurance. But any of us who has been through this process at some point in life knows there is always fault to be found, both within ourselves and within our partner, and most assuredly within the dreams we had for a life together. This was a powerful piece, and left an even stronger impact with your excellent word imagery and the lighter into which then propelled us into this scene. I like writing that makes you stop and think, and this surely did!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      Thanks… yeah I totally stumbled across it (was searching for an community in my area and came across a link to a court case and started reading (the language is very interesting, in the world of law and lawyers and judges and such) and in the section where the judge explained his decision I saw ‘Doctrine of Mutual Mistake’ and I was off and running. gotta love this internet, no?

  5. I have to thank you for your preamble which includes myself. That is high praise and I can’t not admit that it gave me a buzz to read it.
    Your piece is wonderful. The language draws powerful images. I can just see her grounded husband behind his ramparts of his book and paper castle. Not only does it evoke the visual it has great symbolism as well. I think you excelled yourself.

  6. He will recover quickly, as he never put any of himself into the relationship anyway. Well told!

  7. Pat B says:

    That artwork is great one to combine with your SSS! Being willing to accept that each may have contributed in some way to the situation, is the first step in reconciliation. Are they both going to try or has their marriage dried up? The Doctrine of Mutual Mistake was a brilliant find and very timely for your SSS.

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      I’ve always enjoyed that about blogging (in general) and writing Sixes (in particular) that serendipity that offers so much provided we open to it and can catch even a glimpse of the stories that surround us.