Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
…Late start.
Thanks to Kristi for her continuing efforts to untangle the ‘Hydra of html’ that has been loosed upon her by the dark god, Inlinkz. (visual: wading through coiling serpentine shapes, needle-teeth scything the air with toxic whispers, brown-cardboard packing boxes held overhead, very much 1940s jungle thriller…’cept in the dry, high-mountain region of the country and wards-full of friends, none of whom will get all bug-eyed, muttering something about ‘bad ju ju‘ and run off down the suburban street.) Thanks Kristi!
Well… that certainly puts a modicum of pressure on this here list of Ten Things of Thankful, doan it?
1) Una: for being my role model.
2) Phyllis: for being my enabler (in a good way…mostly)
3) the Wakefield Doctrine: for sine qua non(ing) me in this realm.
4) the Writers Club: something new(ish) (you know I’m a clark, right? welll what’s more natural than my wanting to start a club? (yeah… that’s the non-verbal sound I made lol)
5) (it’s true, though. It will be a club and not a group… (first qualification for applicants! sense the difference in those two: club v group)
6) The internet and it’s associated technology: it widens the world and allows us all to ‘get a whole new group of everyone’*.
7) Lizzi St. Claire (nee Lewis) talk about your sine qua! She created this place in the ‘sphere. Not because it would become a cool place for people of good intent to gather and allow identification among very different lives to take place. No, she did it because…. And she did it alone. At the beginning time, when the Ten Things were simply a recurring theme among the posts in her blog. Whether anyone read it or not. Very cool.
8) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE (Anyone out there reading and really would like to be writing (a TToT post) but …not…quite….ready. Try this: send in your Item of Thankful as a comment (with whatever attribution you prefer**) and I’ll post it here.
9) Sunday Supplement:
So, about this Writers Club. My interest in writing is attributable to my decision to participate in the blogging community. It is, imo, a literal world or a literary world…or maybe a world of the written word. Of course, not that everyone in the blogosphere is obsessed writing. They are as good as is necessary to their enjoyment of this place. Speaking for myself, from the moment I hit ‘Publish’ on my first Doctrine post, I knew I’d never stop playing catch-up, in terms of my skills against the demands of my ambitions.
Anyway. The idea of having a ‘place’ where different people can try different things, writingistically-speaking strikes me as a good thing. We can share ideas, problems tricks and successes as we follow whatever our path in this world of imagination and ideas takes us. So I set up a site but I need to get it organized so that we have designated common areas and each of us can set up projects that we might want to try. I’m using ‘Pages’ for this, cause we can make them ‘private’. More to follow.
Oh, yeah, that and write a YA mystery series by the name of ‘The Hobbomock Chronicles’. So if you’re up for some interesting times in a tiny corner of the virtual world, let me know.
10) Secret Rule 1.3 Go ahead, ask. (I dare ya, I double dare ya.)
(footnotes)
* early in my days here in the virtual world, when everything was new and therefore risky, my fear would sometimes manifest itself in the most pedestrian of ways. “Hey, be careful clark… you’re getting kinda out there. If you don’t watch out you’re gonna get everyone mad at you.” I am totally grateful for the thought that followed, “Well, then, I guess I’ll just need to get another set of everyone“.
** of course I know how you feel! This is the Wakefield Doctrine!
About clarkscottroger
very nice.
thank you
Ditto what Phyllis said!
Writer’s club sounds cool. We sit around a virtual salon, wear smoking jacket like things (or better yet pajamas and old style slippers) and talk writing? No?! :) Still sounds cool though.
I totally get the connotation of club v group. Totally.
How do I join?
still working that out (the joining and such)… watch for the Sunday Supplement I suspect I’ll use that to hold forth on the plan
Is your Writers Club in the formative stages? This sounds like an interesting pursuit.
I think Una is wondering if there will be a dog in the club. LOL
It is always nice to have an “enabler (in a good way. . .mostly).” Go Phyllis!
oh, very much so. lol
I will write something before the end of afternoon (in the Sunday Supplement Item)… in theory I’ll be able to explain what I would like to believe such a club might be and offer it’s participants and such. (A lot of the impetus for the Writers Club comes from my experiences over that the Six Sentence Story and on that basis I hope that you’ll consider joining in (once I’m able to define the ‘in’ in joining ‘in’ on… or something).
(to be cont’d)
I just read your Sunday Supplement. (You no doubt will laugh, but I didn’t realize that the Sunday Supplement was a real thing. Not once had I ever gone back to check the Sunday Supplement, and now playing catch would seem to be a huge task to undertake.) Anyway, I am interested in learning more about this.
Very cool. More (on the Writers Club) as I learn it myself… no, seriously! As a matter of fact, if you don’t mind, I’ll use your Comment as the starting point of a standalone post. (I find it easier to organize my thoughts when I’m writing a Doctrine post).
I don’t mind.
Good luck on learning about the Writers Club.
Have sent invite. Let me know what you think. (Keep in mind…work-in-progress lol)
Such a sweet dog, looks a little bit like our Janet. Dogs in our life are always to be thankful for.
I finally broke down and submitted a Inlinkz support ticket, so we’ll see what the pros have to say about the code. In some ways, I feel like I jinxed it. Not really, but the code part of the hosting was my biggest hesitation. Self-fulfilling prophesy, except I have no clue what I did or how to fix it!
Anyway, good TToT list. Loved the description of Phyllis.
OK, maybe it’s me. I just left a comment that apparently got eaten. I finally submitted a support ticket with Inlinkz, so hopefully I will get some answers about how to make the link up visible again!
Good list, good idea, a Writers’ Club. Or will it be a Writer’s Club? Each as an individual, or as a whole? My high school English teacher was good, she drilled it in to me to make sure.
Damn! I nominate you for the Grammarian-at-Large of the Group
no! I’m serious (as serious as we can be to assure that all Club activities are fun and non-stressful)… will you accept this post?
If so, reply that the email I see (in my dashboard) is the best to use as a contact… and I will send over an invite. (Might be tomorrow, I need to straighten up the blog first… lol)
Grateful for the Doctrine and the Saturday night call-in. :) Grateful for long-term friends who just “understand.” Grateful for writing and the never-ending journey that leads us to new places, new civilizations and to go where no clark has gone before…
Sorry, random thought: did you ever watch Star Trek? I prefer that over Star Wars, even though Star Wars is good, too. I think ST represents what’s possible for the human race. And who will lead us to that point? A clark? A roger? A scott? Haha…you know, when clarks become “visionary,” I think they’re quite capable of being great leaders…just sayin’.
Totally agree. Of the three, clarks do the visionary thing as well as scotts do cops and rogers do firefighters*
I preferred the Star Treks to the Star Wars (and of the ST, I preferred the STNG over the original, both of which I am pleased to say I watched when they first were on).
*a quick Doctrine note: the ‘Everything Rule’ is helpful in a context like this where sometimes the question of ‘is this (occupation, advocation, hobby or bad habit) a clark thing or is that a scottian thing… the Everything Rule states: “Everyone does everything, at one time or another.’ What it means is simply that while the three are in three separate ‘realities’ (predator, outsider, herd member) the common reality is still, well, common. What this rule is actually saying is that somethings/many things/all things ‘manifest’ in each worldview as appropriate.
So, to use our example visionary. In the world of a clark, visionary would manifest as one who has direct knowledge of an extension of what everyone knows, just it’s from a point on the continuum thats up the road apiece (and around a corner (and maybe over a hill or two)… that would be a clarklike visionary.
A scottian visionary would tend to be a giant/more detailed/way, even more of whatever they are or the world they are part of …. and a rogerian visionary is kinda close to the scottian manifestation except a roger will have credentials and footnotes and, in all likelihood a note from whoever/whatever it is that already owns the place they have this vision of…lol
So, about this Writers Club. My interest in writing is attributable to my decision to participate in the blogging community. It is, imo, a literal world or a literary world…or maybe a world of the written word. Of course, not that everyone in the blogosphere is obsessed writing. They are as good as is necessary to their enjoyment of this place. Speaking for myself, from the moment I hit ‘Publish’ on my first Doctrine post, I knew I’d never stop playing catch-up, in terms of my skills against the demands of my ambitions.
I like this.
So, writers’ Club. Hmm. Interesting. Intriguing. Club vs group. I am in a group already. Well, they call it a circle for some reason, though our table we sit at is not a circle. So, I’d love to be in a club of this sort. How does one apply to become a member?
Cool.
I’ll send you an invitation. (One applies by indicating that they find there to be a distinction between a writers group and a writers club and that perhaps a writers club might offer something a writers group cannot!)
So, about our club. (Believe it or not, just doing this inviting and explaining has been good writing practice for me. No, seriously! I’ve gone through like six drafts (of intro to the ‘Writers Club’) for everyone who has joined. (so far: Valerie, Pat Brockett, Mimi and Denise)
The clubhouse is a blog. At least for the time being. It may very well turn out that a website would serve better (than a blog) but one thing at a time.
One of the inciting ideas (for a writing club) was the notion that writing a Y/A novel would be fun and writing with others would be funner. (This by way of explaining the draft posts you’ll find in the blog that have to do with outlines of the Book 1 of the Hobbomock Chronicles ‘The Mystery of the Deadly Baby’
Members have editor status in the blog which means you have the run of the house (it is a club, after all) I will send the invitation using the email address I see in my dashboard thats came with this comment.
Thanks for coming along… it will be …..interesting.