Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Summer’s Guardian, resolve undeterred.
This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. It is most graciously hosted by Kristi. Each week, writers offer insights and remembrances for those people, places and things that inspire a feeling of gratitude. The style of writing is only enhanced by the substance of their lists. And, we get to participate as well!
Note to new Readers and/or participants-in-waiting. Ten Item grat list? Easy-as-pie, yo. ⅄on ɔɐu po ᴉʇ’ sʇɐupᴉuƃ ou ʎonɹ ɥǝɐp¡ Don’t worry about nothin. The TToT has something that no other grat blog in the ‘sphere has… a little ‘ole book of secret rules. (I’d say more about this here, but, as an experienced blogger, I’ve developed some sense of resource management. Want to read more ’bout this book? Head down to Grat Item Number 7.)
Without further ado (holy smoke! is the internet a clark’s dream, or what? I went to check on the correct spelling of ‘further ado’ and that lead to seeing a mention of ‘eggcorn‘. Apparently there is a term, eggcorn, very similar to mondegreen, a cool linguistic term form mis-hearing (in a creative way). Damn! This totally need to be a Grat Item.
1) Only seven more days until winter ends
2) Una
3) Phyllis
4) The Case of the Missing Starr. In this week’s chapter we get re-acquainted with a favorite character from another WIP, Anya Claireaux in Chapter 27. (gettin near the end…)
5) The Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)…. the BoSR/SBoR’s motto: “Hey! We don’t make this stuff up… you do!”
6) The Six Sentence Story (of course) head over there next Wednesday and send Denise in a story that has six and only six sentences in it. Tell her, the Doctrine sent ya.
7) That thing, up in the intro, with the inverted text? Sure you can! While this blog’s theme is gratitude and it, (the theme, not the blog), can be quite the weighty subject, ain’t nothin that says it can’t be fun. (I’ll you in on a little secret, I’m totally fighting the urge to stick some EE Cummings in one these here Items here. Just because. Not a poetry guy, but… hey, Mimi! You know the pome I’m thinking of, I totally know you do. lol)
8) something, something
9) THIS SPACE AVAILABLE If anyone is out there, liking what they read but are hesitant to send in a blog post, send us a sample! I’ll put it right in the comments. Try it out!
10) Secret Rule 1.3 (see Item 5)
music
TV show theme music
and, for fans of PDQ Bach, this by Peter Shickele
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YEAH the days will be getting longer soon – can’t wait.
end of winter, is all.
Eveything is yes when it comes to being grateful.
correctamundo
Thrid. But I’ll come back and say more.
I never know what new stuff I am going to learn here, like discovering that it is possible to flip text. Now if I can just figure out when I might want to do that. Might have to write a story. HaHa
Just got to say I am a pro when it comes to mondegreen. Just ask my family.
Thanks for the PDQ Bach music playing in the background as I read.
the fun of this medium is to have so much at one’s fingertips (rather a literal statement, when you think about it)… funny how funny the PDQ is (I’ve read somewhere that the essential ‘character’ of nearly all humor is incongruity. Which, in the case of the music totally make sense, we know what the music should sound like and they manage to change it before we can notice. Or something like that).
lol
Clark…you gave me word worms…yaknow I’m gonna play with them…
lol surely that is the highest and best use, no?
Eggcorn–great word, and new to me! The example that stands out from my childhood was, “Later on, we’ll PERSPIRE, as we dream by the fire.” I didn’t know the word “conspire,” and perspire made sense to me. Fires are hot!
That’s quite the musical mash-up! I don’t know how they came up with that, but it works!
Funny you should cite a line from Winter Wonderland. I heard it out there today and it reminded me of a Doctrine post from way back… a commentary on the undeniably strange lyrics of the song. I used a version by Ozzie Osbourne and Jessica Simpson of all people… (pretty good version)
Dang, you got another TToT out before I could make it back and respond here. lol.
I like the changing-consonant thing: Frist. Thrid. That gives me some kind of cantankerous grammatical happiness. HAHAH.
And learning cool new words. YAAS! Eggcorn? Ima have to use that even when I WANT to say “acorn.”
Glad you’re continuing with the Case of the Missing Starr…this gives me gratitude. And makes me want to write a story…
lol
the ‘Case’ is wrapping up (the last Chapter next weekend).