Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is (or will at least begin as) a written-on-my-phone TToT post. (Which can be good and, less than good).
Am at work and needing, for a little while, to sit in the car. So what’s a 21st Century real estate agent gonna do? Yes sir! Write a post.
We have Kristi to thank, as each week she provides the link thing that puts thumbnails at the bottom of this here page here, that way sensible, concise, engaging and heartfelt writing on the gratacious* side of life is a click away. Until then, you got us at the Wakefield Doctrine to while away the time with…
Back at the keyboard! Not that the elapsed time since the above ellipsis, (something like seventeen hours), is entirely due to my attempting to write a post on the phone, but I will totally start this week’s list with…
1) I am so glad I don’t ‘have to’ write on a phone. (Relative to my normal state of mind, sitting here at my computer, phone-writing is like one of those annoying plastic puzzles from the day, the little square that had littler squares inside and you’re supposed to be able to get them in sequence…without breaking it apart and gluing it back together. yeah, right.)
2) Phyllis She is one of those people with the ability/patience to actually work the above mentioned ‘Get The Numbers in Proper Sequence’ puzzle. Note: I didn’t say ‘play the puzzle’ lol
3) Una Who would watch patiently as I tried, (not so patiently), to ‘Get The Numbers in Proper Sequence’ and, when I threw it across the yard, (provided I didn’t have any glue on hand), would happily run and bring the puzzle back.
4) Friends in the virtual world. I got back to my bloghop roots this weekend and joined Kristi (and Mardra) over at the ‘Finish the Sentence Friday‘ ‘hop. (Old story short, this was the first ‘hop I participated in, back in the earliest days of the Wakefield Doctrine blog. Kristi and the other hostinae were so good at hostifying** that I become a regular there. (Well, as regular as a clark ever is)).
5) The Case of the Missing Starr. Chapter 23 (Due out this afternoon. Consult your local listing for time etc) Available Now! Hey! Question: So I’m doing this as a serial story. A chapter each week. I enjoy this approach, as it amounts to ‘semi-live writing’. As a seat-of-the-pants writer, this is not without a fair amount of risk. Write yourself into a corner and you have a problem, ’cause you can’t go back and re-write at least not after its been sent out to the world. Anyway, over at the Facebook I started out pasting the chapters directly, each week. Now I’m putting the link to the blog where I’m keeping the story. Its way easier to read back chapters and such. The question is, would sending out a ‘Like this Page’ to all my friends on Facebook be annoying? (Only asking ’cause, well, I’m a clark, ya know?)
6) The Six Sentence Story. Always a place for honing the skills and getting bummed out at how could your contemporaries are (ha ha 1)
7) work: for being of such a nature as to allow me relative freedom of time (there it is again! the topic ‘Time’ has been all over, this weekend.) There is a price for such freedom, i.e. certainty of a paycheck each week, but then again, uncertainty is the legend at the base of every map of the world of the Outsider.
8) Great call last night. Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia called and we three regulars2 had the grandest of times!3
9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE
10) Secret Rule 1.3
* not a ‘real’ word, however we claim the credentials of those with good intent. (Who shouted, ‘Next two exits!! ?)
** still not a ‘real’ word
1) I shouldn’t joke and should be embarrassed at how true it sometimes is
2) yeah, I know… regular
3) a shout out to anyone of an age when that particular expression was met with a smile of appreciation and acknowledgement
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Glad you phoned it and it is no easy task, but glad we have the option. Sounds like an interesting week. And I just learned you were an agent! I had no idea. Here I thought you were a chillin’ retire-Wheeeee! AND a prolific writer, so there’s that too!!
lol it (real estate) is a business that pretty much lets (and sometimes) requires one to never stop
Nicely done, that typing on the phone thing. The pre-populated words helped, hopefully. (You know, when you start typing in a word and the phone tries to helpfully give you the whole word so you don’t have to type all of it in.)
Those damned puzzle things. I could never get them to do what I wanted. I prefer your approach: break and glue. I’ll have to remember that.
Though it did make my mind go on a tangent. I’ve always wanted (but never actually had the motivation) to learn the little algorithms that go with solving Rubix cube puzzles such that you can amaze your friends with your level of genius. The mad scientist in me REALLY, REALLY wants to learn how to do this. The other part of me is like, well…isn’t that a colossal waste of time? But still…AMAZE your friends!
Stupid puzzles.
Case of the Missing Starr: yes, make your friends like the page. Better yet, make an email subscription and let them all know when the new chapter comes out. As for writing yourself into a corner, just add another damned problem for the main character to solve. Increase the pressure. Until…the climax of the story. Then the resolution should be easy. (Looka there. In my desire to help, note that I have written myself into corners before, prompting the complete abandonment of my story, left to forever collect bits of cyber dust that will only be discovered on an old hard drive after I’m dead, requiring special adaptive hardware to access and make my heirs millions of dollars because they decided that those story “corners” were actually good. Use this advice with caution.)
Such is my Sunday mood. lol
…lol, except my first reaction to having the words pop-up before I could complete typing them was, ‘Predictable much, clark?’ lol the old saying, ‘for many clarks, novelty is the drug of choice’.
I did peel off the little colored squares on a Rubik’s cube once!
I love those little sliding puzzles.
My dad, a Dentist, used to have these in a toy bin for children who were forced to come to the office. I thoroughly enjoyed putting all the pieces in the correct order – a place for everything and everything in its place.
lol. Denise’s comment is a good description of my relationship to those little things
I used to love those little puzzle things. Until I couldn’t figure them out. Then not so much, lol
It was a good call last night. Never a dull moment!
Looking forward to Chapter 23. Good story, seat of pants or not :)
I much prefer composing posts (and comments) on the computer than on the phone. Kudos to you for even attempting phone composition.
I think there is a huge difference between asking friends to like your page and those posts that try to guilt you into sharing a post (the online equivalent of chain letters!) Definitely ask friends to like your page!
I must admit, I’m one that likes those puzzles.
I’m betting there’s a correlation between predominant worldview and being good at those sliding puzzles. (Not really surprised, your people have the combination of patience and analytic qualities that not only should make the game fun, it would make the game winnable/completable! lol)
Thanks for the input (on turning up a little on promoting the Case of the Missing Starr).
I used to love that little puzzle gadget! I even found one with letters instead of numbers. It was actually part of some game, but the rest of the game was missing when I found it in a bin of toys at a second hand store. I couldn’t resist getting it. I think I was already a grandma when I bought it. Some of the grandkids liked it too.
The smallness of the phones is sometimes problematic for me when texting. (Can be frustrating at times.) I find messaging on a iPad much easier. As for posting on my blog, I do that sitting in front of the computer. Just so much easier and faster.
Asking friends to like your page on FB is fine by me. :-)
Some of the people I work with use the voice-to-text capability of their phones instead of pressing little letters. Seems to take some practice but works, may have to try to get into using it.
Funny how ‘re-memberable’ some of the things from childhood can be!
Phone blogging is not easy, i am thankful you went ahead and did so!
letters too small, fingers too large, eyes too far away.
lol