Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).
You know, of all the rhetorical questions that we have stuck up there in the Title Line, this is, unless I’m mistaken* the first time we have addressed the casual Reader of the Wakefield Doctrine by ‘name’. Of course, many, many Posts are written thinking in terms of a momentary, rapidly closing window of attention, only because it seemed to be the realistic approach to getting the message out to the scotts and rogers who might happen by our little blog. But, to realistically expect to ‘draw in’ the deliberately casual Reader, it now occurs to us that of the three personality types, and their respective writing styles, the one that comes to mind are is am rogers!
Let’s just say that, in terms of writing styles, the rogerian style is the one we should employ in order to capture the attention of the Casual Reader. As initially counter-intuitive as this may be to the clarks reading this, think it through! (Go ahead, we’ll wait…)
In fact, this being a faux-Tuesday, lets just offer some suggestions for the best writing style to capture the Casual Reader’s attention.
- clarks try for a snappy, pointed kind of writing style, this approach is intended to attach information to the Reader, whether they pay attention or not, sort of like those prickly plant things you get on your pants when you walk through fields of tall grass
- scotts when writing a story, are dynamic and hard to ignore (in fact, they pose a definable risk to anyone who might even think about ignoring them)…but like the howling of the coyotes in the night, all you have to do is turn up the volume on the TV and they are drowned out and no longer hold your attention.
- rogers…their thing is real damn simple, they tell a good story. While you might be successful in not being drawn into their audience (like watching the ripple in the pedestrian traffic in a city, the eddy that forms around panhandlers) once you let yourself start…they (the rogerian storytellers) will hook you with the promise of adventures and tales of people who seem a lot like you (and maybe a little more) and then again…rogers lose themselves in their own stories and sometimes forget that there needs to be a point
* yeah, I know…as if **
** lol
HEY! Yeah you Mr. Author…
About scottian writing: “Dynamic and hard to ignore…” “…drowned out and no longer hold your attention” )
Are you f***ing kidding me? That’s an oxymoron, moron.
lol
(…”don’t worry none, Ma thems just lonely coyotes…theys more afraid of us than we are of them”)