Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Five Minute Friday?
Sure. Why the heck not write with a time limit*?
Among other things, the Wakefield Doctrine is meant to be simple (but not easy), useful (this, btw, is a secret hint as to the qualities necessary to have fun here) and productive (no, not in a “I will measure your efforts here at school/work/home/first-date/last-chance, so there’s nothing to worry about.”) to the individual trying to navigate the day today in the world around them and the people who make it up.
Ready? (Our approach will be simplest. We’ll set the timer on our solid-state telephone to five minutes and when I hear the ‘Times Up!’ song (which is posted below (not part of the timed section because, well, it’s part of the set up, ya know?**)
The (don’t stop for spelling!!! you gots 4:38 seconds!!!). the Wakefield Doctrine is an additional perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up. (Alert and Regular Readers will at some point take note of that peculiar wording “…and the people who make it.” That is quite deliberate and a bit on the metaphysical side. It is meant to remind us that all real, to small but very real degree is personal. And, if it is personal, then we are part of the process of creating it.)
There are three ‘personality types’ in the Doctrine:
- Outsider(clarks
- Predator(scotts)
- Herd Members(rogers)
We grow up and develop into one (and only one) of these three because that is the nature or character of the reality we are experiencing. So, when you think about it, we’re all perfect for the world as we experience and the people who are around us are all playing their part.
(Hands up in the air as the Guess Who start to play.)
This Five Minute thing might be a bit overly ambitious, but hey, whatta gonna do***
* nope, hasn’t started yet… don’t worry, we’ll tell you when
** why yes, this is the default tuneage we use on the timer… an old song. hold on, let me paste it in below.
*** of course there are, like a couple of thousand other posts, if, you know, you get curious about this thing of ours.
…jeez! what the hell!?! The top replay number is, like, 259,292… that strikes me as way lower than it should be, given that the band (Sage) the progenitor scott and progenitor roger were in, used to play it all the time…
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I like it…”Five Minute Friday”!
Kinda takes the pressure off no fine tuning, chance of over writing.
(Blog hop, anyone? You have a catchy title, Clark :)
“…and the people who make it up.” Who can’t use a little help figuring them out!
tru dat
A 5 min writing spurt? There’s just a chance I’m going to start… 3,2,1…
lol
I was having a half-way decent typing day this morning… (hate to think what the post would have looked like if’n I was in a ‘keyboard? letters? what is this tye ping?’
If it wasn’t for all the back-typing, back-spacing, capital letter adjusting and apostrophe inserting, 95% of what I type would be completed in five minutes. (OK, maybe not exactly 95%, but it’s up there! Probably. 😊 )
Ain’t it the way?… funny about the process, whole some Sixes write themselves, more often than not I’ll write as many words as possible about what I think will be the story. Then I’ll spend time (while driving or otherwise not being called on to think rationally lol) ‘day-dreaming’ the story. You know, picture the setting or the action… this, for me, has the advantage of taking the pressure off the execution and let me focus on the ‘plot’. That said, sometimes I’ll get a song associated with the Six that totally drives the narrative.
Now, that’s for writing fiction. Writing a Wakefield Doctrine post…. welll, lol that’s usually something else entirely. Don’t know if I’d have the nerve to try that with a Six
Wait a minute! Hey, Tom, great idea!
A Six Slam lol would need to honor-system it… maybe, say, one take. Don’t know if it’d be realistic to do a ‘Here’s the word, tell us the story in (however many minutes)… betcha ceayr and Doug…Ladysighs and Chris would totally kill at something like this… still worth thinking on
It’s especially so if you turn off all of the auto fill in and auto correct stuf (it makes me barmy so i do that, and sometimes almost regret it.
I’ve done the same thing (with the auto-correct off and such)… like predominant worldviews yo