Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
‘…you should write a book.’ ‘…hey, have you ever thought about writing a book?’ ‘…you know clark, what would be real good, would be if you wrote all that stuff down.’ ‘…my sisters best friends’ brother wrote a book about personality types..I think they’re gonna make it into a movie.’
You know, whoever said, ‘…easier said than done’ was probably talking about blogs and book writing. It’s just that everyone, in this demographic…the one that includes: people who write daily blogs, girls who paint, guys with cameras, mothers with children and sisters with ambition, they all seem to have the energy, the skills and the time and the energy to produce, at very least, a draft manuscript of a decent idea for a book or a novel, a memoir or an autho-biography.
As a matter of fact, the group that I joined on ‘the Facebook’ (the BB&G) were in the midst of starting some kind of book-writing marathon… the nano-mo-ho, or the whoo-hoo-write write, whatever…I recall it was a Contest, at least as much of a contest that female women, god-bless-their-understanding-instead-of-killing-and-destroying hearts are capable of…. (remind me to tell you about a sporting event that centered on one of the women athlete’s being on the verge of breaking (a) world (scoring) record… it’s a sweet story from the X-chrome side of the fence and is totally incomprehensible to the rest of us. …it involved a team sport and when the athlete was at the point, about to break it, everyone stopped playing…I mean everyone, the other team included …no! really! the opposing team stood aside so the shot could be made and the record books be re-written!! even a roger would shake their oft-bearded heads at such behavior. I suppose that’s why there’s no Emperor Ming-ette or Ghengis Connie or (hey, stop me if I am going on too much with this…there is a point in this here Post here… if I write enough words I will come upon it. I know I will.
I got it now!! I don’t think it’s my dissatisfaction with my efforts to take what is known about the Wakefield Doctrine and turn it into a book. At least I don’t think it is… well, maybe a little. It’s just that all the parts are there…it sits in my head every day and…and even when I am not writing about the Doctrine, someone like Cyndi or Terrye or Melanie or Janine or Amy or Jen or Kristi (newest addition to the blogroll!) or Denise or Stephanie or even the Progenitor roger will write a Comment that makes me see more of the Doctrine (more uses, more insights, more wisdom, more humor, more ways-to-win-an-argument, more ways-to-get-lucky, more skills for career advancement, more insights into the behavior of our: spouse/the kids/the boss/the ex/the new beau/the cop standing next to your car; there just seems to be no end to the ways that this perspective on human nature can be used for… and I know that I can create something that people, other than you ‘Readers-with-minds-like-steel-traps and hearts-like-good-natured-bears’ can read and understand and be glad you bought the book.
ok…guess I am done:
- complaining ( did you know that most clarks don’t believe that they complain…even when we do?)
- rambling on (the clark in me enjoys the end product of a Post like this, but hates the thought of how….odd it reads) (the roger in me probably is basking in the sense of heart-feltedness this may ‘read…) (the scott? don’t ask lol)
- seeing my thoughts ‘on paper’
- being uncomfortable about not being able to write a Post, I will now proceed to be uncomfortable about the Reader response lol
Enough… maybe video tomorrow!
…stay tuned yo
About clarkscottroger
I did write a book and can so not bring myself to finish editing and reworking things in it. It sits on my computer at not quite 70,000 words and just not sure when I will get the energy or motivation to do this now. You are right that writing and blogging is exhausting at times and does take up much of my time now. However, if you ever do get the time and the energy, I think you would write a fantastic book, Clark!! :)
@Janine
Thank you for that vote of confidence… I have one fiction thing at 60k but the more important one is the Doctrine book..non-fiction? lol I suspect you will be getting IM’s from me at totally random times…”Janine!! you said that I would write a fantastic book…the words won’t cooperate!! what should I do now?’
This here Doctrine is always entertaining and enlightening, yo.
Now…the thing about clarks, that this reminds me of, is that we’re creative to a fault. At least I am. It’s like I waver between wanting to write, wanting to teach, wanting to create art and I want to devote all my time to all three and…I feel intensely loyal to one or all of them but feel like I’m “betraying” the others when I really get into art, for example and not teaching. This is why I’ve been on a lifelong pursuit to somehow combine all three into one awesome, passionate career. I still haven’t found it, but I’m working on it. ;)
Have a great Wednesday. :)
@Cyndi
well, listen when I get the damn Doctrine book published, (the next step in the master plan), is to go out and hold seminars…and you will be among the DownSprings that we will send the Memo to ( “Dear Cyndi, we have a banquet room at the Day’s Inn in Boise for next weekend. Please bring your laser point and your sharpie…”)
Funny you say “sharpie”…I’m cooking up some art and it involves Sharpies. LOLOL
@Cyndi
the Progenitor scott was/is quite a talented drawer-guy so I picked up some of the terms and such, he used to speak fondly about a rapido-graph (I may have the word confused…for very very fine line drawings… scott did cartooning most excellently.
Funny you should mention that. Most of the time I will think I’m just talking and then I’ll get a look from my husband or he’ll stop listening, and I’ll go, “What?”, and he’ll go, “You’re complaining again….” Lol. Oops. Good to hear that’s a Clark-like trait!
As for the book writing…I’m happy with myself for finishing an entire fiction book in 30 days last year. I started editing it and realised it’s really not what I want to put out there. A bummer, but reality. At least I gave it a try and proved that I could do it.
I haven’t given up completely on the book writing – will be blogging about that more next week.
Great post today, Clark! :)
@Melanie
Yeah, for me the book this is more about actually doing it, finishing it. While I certainly would want it to come out perfect, I feel it’s more about having actually done it than it is about (outcome) of the book itself.
It’s good to hear that others have had the same experience.