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

Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you. At least they aren’t this time.¹ This is that rarest of rarities, a Friday Wakefield Doctrine TToT post. There’s a reason (hell, I’m a clark, I always have a reason, even (especially) when I’m not correct.) At any rate, come join CS Lewis’ favorite grandniece Lizzi R here at the longest running, of the best of, the second bloghop that the Doctrine joined up with and celebrate the week past, by sharing your list of those things that sparked a feeling of gratitude² in the past week³.

Lets get to it.

1)  That there is a Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

2) faux understanding, (though I will lay claim to a genuine sense of enjoyment and appreciation) of Latin phrases, to wit: ‘sine qua non‘ as this phrase (and many others that I’ve appropriated from the history and literature books, like the boy out to build his first fort in the woods, if it’s flat and not metal, then it will serve as siding and if it is metal but heavy, then it’s the perfect tool for hammering in nails, wood-screws, dowels and anything else that’s sticking out when it should be sticking in) as I struggle to express my thoughts in a way that will not be too confusing.

3) sine that fortunately is not non, is Item #1:  everyone’s favorite secret personality theory. It is central to my activities now, (and for the last 6 to 33 years ), particularly in my efforts at writing, here in the ‘sphere. (In the interests of padding my list, I will cite some of the more significant elements of my life that exists solely because of the Doctrine.)

4) Hey, y’all heard about the writing group I signed up with, right? Yeah! Doctrine’s posse be gettin’ large…. (well, yes, I am practicing my rhetorical skills, surely they’ll be impressed with my….er eclecticism and such. I did mention that the RWRI is a group of talented and published(!) writers of that interesting genre ‘Romance’, didn’t I? At present, in proper clarklike fashion, I’m looking up titles on my kindle from the various group members and reading like crazy. This is a perfect illustration of the non-discriminatory and totally non-practical approach that a clark takes to learning about a specific topic, I have very little memory for names and almost zero ability to match names with faces, the result will be that I’ll know about the plot of number of books written by member of the RWRI, at least on a excerpt level⁴ (“Well, no clark, that was Anita’s work, but thank you nevertheless! And, since you ask, while there are many sub-genres, including Regency and Inspirational, even Paranormal. I don’t think that anyone has established a Romance sub-genre that focuses on self-born computer entities.” )

5) At any rate, the group has a thing they do as part of the monthly meeting called, ‘Silent Critique’ … and guess what?  (yes, I do hear Cynthia and zoe in the distance going, ‘No. Way. !’ Yes way. Gots to blame and credit the Wakefield Doctrine for the …whatever that makes me raise my metaphoric hand (still in the back of the room, of course) and say, “I’ll do it.” So tomorrow I’ll be reading the 1st three pages of Chapter 1 of ‘Almira’. (wish me luck)

6) the photo at the top of the Post? Una is there, sitting in the window, I swear! Taken this morning as I walked back to the house after taking the garbage out (thats me in the cover photo), even knowing she was in the window there I could barely see her. But look closely for a couple of geometric shapes in the cent of the photo, those are her ears. Black on black with a reflection… easy to see!

7) Phyllis and her tree fort… like the old saying holds: “It’s not the things we do as much as how we feel about them that makes the matters.”

8) The funny thing about the Doctrine and all this writing and blogging and joining writers groups and sending out query letters to Literary Agencies, it’s all driven by my need to write the perfect Wakefield Doctrine post/book. My skills were marginal when I showed up in this place and Ive being paying the belated price of ignoring my English lessons in Grade School.

9) Featured Hostinae of the Week!!  Kristi Campbell!! Kristi, (or as her friends call her, ‘Kristi’) is not only a natural for the blogosphere, but she has a way about her that inspires the non-confident and intimidates the aggressively over-confident. One of the original co-hostinae of this here bloghop here, I met her back in the first bloghop I had the nerve to participate in, Finish the Sentence Friday which she co-hosts to even this day. She can be found on the Facebook, of course, but you need to go over to her site, Finding Ninee . It’s a perfect example of what kind of good things can happen when talented people use the tools of this virtual world. Go there, stress that bandwidth.

10) SR 1.3  New Readers?  check with our Curatoress of the BoSR/SBoR (and Mistress of the SGV), zoe she’ll totally give you the 411.

1) yeah, the worst thing about writing as a hobby is that the better you get, the more not-such-good-word-choices become apparent. fricken emails at work are taking me, like, 3 times as long to send!

2)  or things of a hypo-gratitude character, as the Book of Secret Rules (aka Secret Book of Rules) allows

3)  or anytime to forms on the screen, etch-a-sketch like as you type

4)  New Readers? have you found that you’re not only comfortable, but convincing, when you discuss a topic that you didn’t realize that you knew anything about and that the meager, bare-bones facts of a Cliff Notes bookette, with the proper insightful extrapolation can be effectively convincing?  well, hello clark!

the following is prompted entirely on the basis of how the weather looked today, nothing in the ‘real’ world otherwise to prompt it, such is the remarkable power of the song

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