Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
The host is Denise.
The rules state: using the prompt word, write a story of exactly six sentences in length.
This weeks prompt word:
RIGHT
“What you’re telling me is that all you have to do is write six sentences and include a certain word,” straightening the lapels of his bespoke suit, the man glanced around the bar, disapproval showing like the face of a 2.0 GPA undergrad anthropologist in the field for the first time.
“Right, that’s all there is to it,” the unkempt man sat on the far side of the round table, a positional geometry made possible only by the other’s disdain for their surroundings.
“I guess you have every right to try and learn the craft in whatever manner,” his words, tripping over a congenital sneer, naturally italicized, “you think is right,” looking down at the dried-liquor veneer of the table top, stood with the jerky grace of a life-long germaphobe surrounded by Petri dishes.
“Well, I had no idea how difficult this would be, or how unprepared I was, but two wrongs don’t make a right,” his spirit buoyed by confession, elevated his natural slouch; with the unsophisticated enthusiasm of a child on his first visit to the city zoo; he felt at home.
“I’d offer you valuable advice, however, even though it is your right, you’ll probably ignore it,” the older man nodded a curt goodby to his former student.
“Right on,” tipping back in his chair, the writer-to-be tossed a smile to a girl two tables away; she wore a patched army surplus jacket, had a Bic pen holding a pile of chestnut hair off her shoulders and a steno pad in her hands; waving at the departing teacher but looking at the girl, he laughed, ‘You’re bloody well right.”
(who didn’t see this music video from a mile away?)
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Right-on, a very clever six.
Thank you.
no problem*
*god bless the millennials but ‘no problem’ is not the same as ‘you’re welcome
Aw :) Loved it.
(the Doctrine is a most useful tool)
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Bloody well right! Great write!
Thanks Susan
Clever!
..it was fun (Full Disclosure: the last third of the process was fun, the first two thirds was ‘What the heck can I write about?!”
Everyone is right when they say this is a great write. It’s a contender.
Ah, but that’s a fun one.
yeah, right?
Clever approach to this week’s SSS, and I think you earned a medal for how many times the prompt word was used in your Six!
Great line – “disapproval showing like the face of a 2.0 GPA undergrad anthropologist in the field for the first time”
Thanks, Pat. My starting point (to this Six) was, for whatever reason, looking up and the definition of ‘right’ and I knocked out by home many forms, i.e. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.
So, naturally the next step was to write as many short sentences with the various forms of the prompt… Then the ‘action’: two people talking… both using the prompt… then the setting… and then the relationship, back to the setting (including character description) to highlight the characters
the music? that was there before I typed a single word… Didn’t love the song back in the day, but damn, how many times can you use a prompt word in a lyric?
lol
Imagery bonus points and that’s a rightfully right write!
…correct
lol thanks, Lisa
I might have to try this. Given the right frame of mind, it could be downright fun.
totally
(and you’re right about the frame of mind thing)… the trick is there are two ‘right ‘hey-this-is-was-fun’ frames of mind… 1) before you write and B) after you’ve beat your head against the wall and hit send and get the comments and feedback from the others)
…Tips: when you start keep sentences separated (like they were paragraphs… a lot of them are, sorta) makes the critical ‘count the periods’ phase easier; those! semi-colons? totally the best friend you have in the world when it comes to Six Sentence Story writing and lastly, if you have an idea for a story before you learn the prompt word… go ahead and write it as a Six… its a lot easier to find a way to insert a word into a story than the other way around
have fun Denise posts the prompt word on Sundays
Cool! Thanks!
Was the student, perchance, sipping a Grasshopper? Certainly not an Old-Fashioned. I’d say he was stirred, but not shaken.
Fine six-pack of sentences.
lol
thanks, D