Month: April 2018 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 12, 2018 By clarkscottroger

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

Each week Denise provides a prompt word and invites us all who would participate, to write a story of six (and only six) sentences.

I was talking to Denise the evening before last about the ‘writing of Six Sentence Story(s)’ and we got on the topic of ‘how to’. I mentioned how enjoyable it is to see others write…maybe not prologues as much as ‘asides’ (for would that, more properly be ‘before’) to their Sixes. Val and Pat have been writing ‘intros’ that not only are interesting insights into their ‘process’, but for me, an additional way to learn-by-imitation.

In any event I said that if I have an idea (for a story) I still need to decide on the outcome, i.e. how would I have the Reader react to my story. Do they laugh or frown, smile and look around in the hopes of finding a clue or simply click on the next …Six Sentence Story.

This week the word is:

WAKE

The doctor, trying to find the balance between urgency and routine said, “It’s called ‘sleep paralysis’ and, unfortunately, it’s increasingly common among men of your age; this is for Ambien but what you really need to do is exercise more and worry less.”

Trevor Eldridge, smiling as men do at the end of a doctors visit that did not involve further testing, thought, ‘I didn’t get to where I am today by spending my days in the gym and I wouldn’t be next in line for manager if I didn’t love my wife so much’, stood up and shook the doctor’s hand with one hand and accepted the prescription with the other.

The soon-to-be-promoted to Manager of the Eastern Seaboard Division lay in bed unable to open his eyes; with a hot flash of fear he failed to recall in any in his recent bout of nightmares, eyelids being paralyzed with the rest of his body. Remembering the doctor’s prescription sparked a short feeling of relief as he remembered the end of his evening adding a few over-the-internet sleeping pills while thinking, ‘I can’t afford to nod off at the board meeting tomorrow’.

Resigned to waiting out the dream, he heard distant voices, growing in volume, if coming closer to his bed and thought, ‘Thats odd, usually it’s just me frozen in my bed; no lights, no people talking in the dark.’

“Trevor hated the idea of a wake, much less an open casket; although, the undertaker did a wonderful job, he looks like he’s sleeping.”

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 8, 2018 By clarkscottroger

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

‘A Pond before Spring’
(Landscape Orientation) Like a mirror on a bureau in the basement (or attic) the pond that takes up the lower half of the photo reflects only what its current orientation allows. A limitation to mirrors that deprives all but the most imaginative of the inherent power of (a mirror).em? We see (below) what is above (in the top half of the photo)…mostly. But all mirrors are simply the flat picture of something that exists in four dimensions. It is the fourth (dimension) that one should never forget.

This week: simplicity.

Thanks, Josie Two Shoes. The place is open on Sunday for my participation* as it has been formal these weeks.
Una I enjoy preparing her breakfast. She waits without impatience and wags her tail as she eats.
Phyllis
The Wakefield Doctrine for providing me with not only (an) additional perspective on the world and the people in it, but it helps me recognize the best place to stand.
The bloghops that I participate in: FTSF, Six Sentence Story, TToT and the Gravity Challenge; they make the difference between reading alone in my room and standing in a crowded bookstore** and reading.
The work I do. It is custom-made for me.***
The technology of the times, they remind me how fortunate I am to be living in these times and they provide me with a daily reminder not to sleep through it.
The Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) an artifact of this bloghop (and only this ‘hop, to the best of my knowledge). It is the best of all Rules (Secret and otherwise)
THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (For anyone really wanting to participate, especially those who have not yet worked up the nerve (lest we forget, the first time for most things carries a certain anti-momentum that doesn’t simply block our efforts, it enervates our will.) Type it into a Comment and I will post it here.
Secret Rule 1.3 (which states, in part: “…[t]he completion (incipient and replete) of a list constitutes a legitimate Item for (said) List and may, provided there remain, at minimum one item less the recommended Ten Things, be placed in the Tenth (10th) position and, by it’s completing the list, be something to be Thankful for; [Sec.45 (i) subchapter 8 of the Book of Secret Rules, Secret Book of Rules [all rights imagined] 2009- 2018

* actually, the doors remain open, like, unlike maybe Monday? Tuesday? (better ask J)

** for the age-challenged, those are places, there out there, in the world, (somewhere like school and the doctors but not actually in your neighborhood) that are full of hardcopy books and things

*** for Kristi and Pat and Josie and Mimi (and those so inclined)

An InLinkz Link-up

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 5, 2018 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story.

Hosted by Denise at Girlie on the Edge, each week we are, all of us, invited to write a story grounded in the prompt word that she provides us. The goal is to write a story using six and only six sentences.

For the last few weeks I’ve looked to the various genre of fiction to attempt to create a Six with a certain tone, if not style. For god knows what reason, this week it occurred to me to try to write a poem. It is well-documented in these pages that the relationship between me and poetry is pretty much the same as what existed between me and Nancy Jackson. (It was in my younger life, back when I lived in the Land of Hormonia.)

I was not certain how to justify or qualify a story in the form of a poem. I am fairly confident that no one will accuse me of writing six sentences that are too short; nevertheless I felt the need to find a basis for claiming that I’d written a Six Sentence ~~Story~~ Poem.

I found reference to two forms: a) Sestain (which wikipedia informs us is a six line poem (which) “…are probably next in popularity to quatrains in European literature. Usually there are three rhymes in the six-line strophe, but sometimes there are only two”; and 2) Sextilla (which is also a six line poem)

This week the prompt word is: LIMB

LIMB

Seasons turn, life, ‘neath winters blanket stirs.

Brings new life to bathe in the sun’s caress.

Reaching, fingers seek the touch of old fur.

A tear in the soul, darkened happiness.

Loss, calls silently the heart’s phantom limb.

Sings in the language of joy, a quiet hymn.

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Monday -Wakefield Doctrine- “…of self-improvement, stage fright and the perfect Doctrine post.”

April 2, 2018 By clarkscottroger

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

Remember a couple of weeks ago, I posted a draft of an article for the newsletter (of) the writers group I belong to? I got my copy this morning of this month’s newsletter and there it was; well, that’s the ‘butterflies’ reference in the subtitle today. I’m surprised and pleased at how uncomfortable I am.*

One of the interesting side effects of this article is only today becoming apparent. Since I reference the Wakefield Doctrine in it, there might very well be visitors to our favorite personality theory blog. And, per the classic 50’s and 60’s TV trope: ‘My god, you didn’t say that you’d invited (Father Ryan/ Mr. Dithers/the Mayor) to dinner! This place is a mess!’ I am, at the moment, all, ‘Damn! why didn’t I set aside time to edit and re-write some of those Pages on clarks, scotts and rogers!”

No, not that there’s anything to the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers that needs to be changed or updated, just that my writing was… early-in-development. (Can I get a ‘oh man, what a clark you’re being!’ thank you, zoe)

Back in the day, posts ’round here used to run in the 300-400 word range; 600 words would be the exception rather than the rule. Of course, I was writing a post a day with topics ranging from ‘chilled pickles’ to ‘music used as background music in TV commercials’.

My goal then, (as it is now), was to write ‘the perfect Wakefield Doctrine post’.

The perfect Wakefield Doctrine post would be something a Reader could read once and immediately experience the world and the people (that make up our worlds**) from the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine; to begin see the clarks, scotts and rogers. With the understanding they would acquire from this one post, the Reader would know more about the people in their lives than they did prior to reading, ‘Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine’.

Still trying to write that perfect post. Today seems like a good day to try (again).

The Wakefield Doctrine is a tool that affords us a way of seeing the people in our life through a perspective that will amuse us, depress us and maybe even cause us to say, “Of course! If they’re acting that because they are a clark or a scott or a roger, then that means it has very little to do with what I said or did or implied. That makes perfect sense!”

How? Imagine that everyone is born with the potential to experience the world (with) three distinct and characteristic natures. The reality of the Outsider(clarks), the world of the Predator(scotts) and the life of the Herd Member(rogers). At a very early age, we all settle into one (and only one) of these three realities. We develop our social strategies, styles of interpersonal relationships, in reflection of the world as we are experiencing it. Our ‘personality types’ are, at once, both an insight into what we see and a reflection of our best efforts to make the most of life as… and Outsider, a Predator or a Member of the Herd. (While we all live in and experience one of the three worldviews, we never lose the capacity to respond as if we were in one of ‘the other two’. At times, usually under duress, we can exhibit a response not typical of our ‘normal’ selfs.)

That’s all it takes! Learn the easy indicators of the personality types, (clarks: bad posture, electic sense of fashion, wild-creativity and a tendency to mumble self-denigration) or (scotts: impulsive, attractive, decisive and explosively mercurial temperament) or (rogers: charming, sociable, fastidious and good with numbers (or any other aspect of the world that one would hope remain constant) and go out there and watch.

Warning. It’s been found that once a person has learned enough to recognize the clarks, scotts and rogers in their world, they kinda can’t not see the clarks, scotts and rogers.

* I’m a firm believer in the wisdom of ‘what doesn’t make you hide under the bed, makes you better and stronger’. In the early days of this blog, a lot of things caused me to have that classic approach-avoidance struggle of ‘what if they hate it/maybe you’re pushing it’. In any event, it’s there and so am I.

** I might argue that, from the perspective of the Wakefield Doctrine, reality is mostly ‘the people in our world’

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