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

There’s an old saying, ‘Better to write poorly, than infrequently’*.

Writing is like life, if you don’t keep doing it, you won’t get better at it. I suspect that this is not original. Though it is true, at least for some of us here in the blogosphere.

In keeping with this, “No, you don’t need to run in the race this morning if you don’t feel like it, but, why don’cha walk down to those starting blocks and, just hang out, at least until everyone who’s there leave…in a hurry.”

So this post, (started yesterday, supplanted by a visit to Romania), is about WIP** aka Work In Progress. Well, at least, in the sense of characters created, (in not a few cases, characters are casted, based on their work in other stories).

The following is a listing of organized wordation. I’d wanted to use this as an excuse to work on the synopsis (synopsae?) for each story. I realize, reading as I type, here at 8:21 am, that is way unrealistic… wait a minute!! What am I saying?!?! I’m a clark….  and everyone knows, you can’t spell ‘unrealistic’ (ambition) without the ‘c’ ….and ‘l’ and…and! ‘a’  and……. the (hard) ‘c’ sound…. like in Klark!!!

Betcha we return to this post on days the Muse is sleeping in….

We have two serial stories running on alternating Thursdays, over at the Six Sentence Story bloghop:

• ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘
• ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘,
• (plus) one interrupted/paused serial, ‘the Hobbomock Chronicles’.

Completed, but not yet final edits, there is:

• ‘Almira’,
• ‘the Case of the Missing Starr’, and
• ‘Blog Dominion’ (a Sister Margaret Ryan story)

Started but not completed:

• ‘Home and Hearth’ (a Sister Margaret Ryan story).

So, in the coming days, I’m thinking I’ll be ‘reprinting’ this post, as I attempt that worst of all writing requirements, the synopsis. Which, so far, for us, is, like, the apocryphal fifty page term paper on Russia that we all heard that one teacher in Junior High School always required. To that extent, this is more than a requirement to pass the course, its more a part of one’s resume… hell, it’s like not throwing up during the job-of-your-dreams interview***

Stop in and share you thoughts on the writing/publishing process.

* can I get a ‘WTF?!!’ from the New Readers?

** of course, thats the cue to music

*** I have no idea lol