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May 28, 2020 By

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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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. Phyllis says:
    May 28, 2020 at 6:36 am

    Right-on, a very clever six.
    Thank you.

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
      May 28, 2020 at 3:57 pm

      no problem*

      *god bless the millennials but ‘no problem’ is not the same as ‘you’re welcome

  2. GirlieOnTheEdge says:
    May 28, 2020 at 7:26 am

    Aw :) Loved it.
    (the Doctrine is a most useful tool)

  3. Susan Zutautas says:
    May 28, 2020 at 8:17 am

    Bloody well right! Great write!

  4. Kristi says:
    May 28, 2020 at 10:19 am

    Clever!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
      May 28, 2020 at 3:59 pm

      ..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?!”

  5. UP says:
    May 28, 2020 at 11:22 am

    Everyone is right when they say this is a great write. It’s a contender.

  6. messymimi's meanderings says:
    May 28, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    Ah, but that’s a fun one.

  7. Pat Brockett says:
    May 29, 2020 at 12:21 am

    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”

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
      May 29, 2020 at 7:28 am

      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

  8. Lisa Tomey says:
    May 29, 2020 at 12:29 am

    Imagery bonus points and that’s a rightfully right write!

  9. Jennifer Wilson says:
    May 31, 2020 at 9:46 am

    I might have to try this. Given the right frame of mind, it could be downright fun.

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
      May 31, 2020 at 12:12 pm

      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

  10. D. Avery @shiftnshake says:
    June 1, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    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.