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

…before we return to yesterday’s post’s topic… lets return to yesterday’s post’s topics!

While the Reader can be forgiven for not reading the Comments on either, the most germane are those in response to the One-K Friday post. Specifically, the observation by ceayr to our contribution to his (and jenne‘s) prompt photo, to wit: “You hit us with all these intriguing details, then leave us not only high but, not to put too fine a point on it, also dry. Excellent piece, if sadly incomplete.”

As is the case with most who are possessed of his predominant worldview* he is both nearly right and almost wrong,

The thing of it is, while in other ‘hops (say, the Six Sentence Story) the word count is not limited. With skillful (willful) use of semi-colons a Six can be of impressive length. Serial Sixes are possible. A story can, overtime, weave it’s way among subsequent prompt words like the snake slithering in for the kill while the protagonist, armed only with a pitch fork with three broken tines, tries to stop it.

The Unicorn Challenge is not so… (an adjective to convey guidable with excessive capacity for retaliation… like 90% of films since ‘A Bad Day at Black Rock’). It’s prompt is a photo. And… and! There is a word limit. Two hunnert fity words. Tough crowd over at the ‘corn’.

As with most writing prompts, there is, on the parts of all participants a responsibility to not ignore the prompt. There’s a rule in most fiction (real or imagined) that the narrative must remain consistent and reasonable to the Reader. (In Orson Scott Card’s book ‘Characters and Viewpoints’: Whenever you tell a story, you make an implicit contract with the reader. Within the first few paragraphs or pages, you tell the reader implicitly what kind of story this is going to be; the reader then knows what to expect, and holds the thread of that structure throughout the tale. . . .)

Damn! Getting off topic.

So, for today: I will at least try to continue the (implied) serial story I started this week at the Challenge. Or not. As a service to Readers to better allow them a  sense of the character Detective-Captain Anton Rilke, a link to when he first appeared in an Ian Devereaux serial Six. Click Here

*in Part Too of today’s post: Mimi Commented: “Good reprint, i especially like warning to Clarks not to skip around.”

In addition, (to asterix footnote), pertaining to yesterday’s Doctrine post: One of the earliest Rules (of proper behavior) here at the Doctrine was, ‘No one has the authority to declare, reveal and/or assign a label of clark, scott or roger to another person‘.

It is for each of us to discover for ourselfs. While it is fun, (and great practice), to discuss the predominant worldview of other people, as we mentioned yesterday, ‘The Doctrine is for you, not them.’ Furthermore, for those who might argue, “yeah, but, suppose they pick the wrong predominant worldview?”

Real simple: You can’t get it wrong.

You can’t break it. You can’t alter it. Any person with a genuine interest in exploring the benefits of this unique, productive and fun perspective on the world around us and the people who make it up, will, eventually understand their predominant (plus secondary and tertiary aspects).

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