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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…of Writer’s Clubs and comments.”

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

(I’ve called you all here on a matter of grave concern…..lol)

So Pat Brockett writes in a comment (on this weekend’s TToT):

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.

(and) Mimi wrote:

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.

(and) Denise:

I totally get the connotation of club v group. Totally.
How do I join?

All very good questions which I will do my best to answer as soon as I get home from work.  (And I totally want to see Mimi join the Club, my grammar skills are somewhat anemic.

(Visual Clocks with hour hand and minute hands spinning)

Back.

So.

The Writers Club. A virtual hangout for anyone who enjoys the challenge that is always, (imo), a part of writing. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, whatever. Writing, for me, is very much like playing a musical instrument. It requires effort to become proficient. And the definition of proficient is simply, ‘that which provides the practitioner with enjoyment and satisfaction in their writing.’ And being in a band not only is fun it is also one of the better ways to improve one’s skill.

This is will be interesting. (I am in a constant internal struggle with virtually every aspect of this process. It’s gonna be fun.)

Lets just start by ‘moving in’.  The initial challenge will no doubt center on whether a blog is the best online construct for our purposes. It might need to be a website. However, since we haven’t yet achieved a consensus of the kind of activities we’d enjoy, I will repress my own tendency to ‘omg! gotta build something bigger and better’.

Everyone will be familiar with the structure/dashboard of a blog. Pages and Posts and widgets and a whole bunch of potential enhancements. At the present time I’ve got one Published Post (the boiler plate introduction post that WP does with every blog…with a some comment from me and val). There are two draft posts (part of my first WIP for a YA series, the Hobbomock Chronicles). You’ll see a number of pages with names that I really hope are self-explanatory. After all, this is a writers club!

So lets see what happens when we get inside the site.

As everyone who blogs knows, your email shows when you leave a comment. Let me know that the email associated with your comment is the one you prefer to use. I will use whatever you wish in order to send the invitation. The invitation will convey a ‘level of permissions’. I’ve gone with ‘editor’ with val already and I don’t see any reason not to continue that way. It is the highest level other than administrator.

(to be cont’d)

 

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Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one

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  1. Read the Sunday supplement. You can use the e-mail associated with GirlieOnTheEdge :)