Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop
To be more precise, this is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop
Being a bloghop, this current edition of this weekly ‘hop, puts us about halfway through the annual cycle.
(Pro-Tip: If I were a counting-Narrator, I’d be smilin’ all, “Damn. This intro’s like four Grats already. How hard can this be?”)
(Hey, Readers! Do a hypo-youthful blogger a solid? Somewheres in the list below is an item (suitably expressed in the lingua gratiarum of a weekly grat exercise) will be a description of a scene: ‘A young man, a slightly older girl and a dog walk down to the merry-go-round in their seaside community around midnight and…’ anything about these three you might want to say? I would be very… well, you know.)
1) Una
2) Phyllis
3) the Wakefield Doctrine
4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop
5( so, we participate in a bloghop, the Unicorn Challenge (created by SSC&B alum jenne and one-half-Tasmanian-devil-one-third-human-whoopee-cushion, ceayr) and, even though this is one of those Doctrine, following the Doctrine conferred advice: ‘You can only improve by interacting with your betters (story-telling-wise, of course!). But, as a clark we’re are nothing if not possessed of a subversive streak a college-protest-wide, so why not ask Readers for help?
Readers? We’d be, like two Grat Items grateful if’n you’d write whatever came to mind when you read the story-question posed in the intro to this post (you know, the one about ‘a young man, a slightly older girl and a dog walk into a scene…’)
6) Update: Weird-assed door flower:
7) (this space deliberately left blank) so we can cover ourselfs if any Reader takes us up on the request for plot ideas for the ‘corn Challenge:
8) Hey! You’ve all heard of the Six Sentence Café & Bistro, right? (early post: here) Well, Tom (the short-order cook and all-around chaos-sower) was pretty active this week. Check it out. (Want an invite? I’d say Nick or Chris or Mimi would be your best shot at gettin’ one.) (But you didn’t hear it from us, capisché?)
9) something, something
10) Secret Rule 1.3
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Damn! Look at the arms on that weird-assed door flower, lol
A young man – relatively speaking – and a slightly older girl – even more relatively speaking – accompanied by a white and black collie cross called Kirsty, ambled down to the merrygoround in their seaside community around midnight – the witching hour. But they were not afraid. Being Clarks – at least the young man was – they, or he, were, or was, possessed of a strong subversive streak, and were, or was ready to make mischief . But by this time the girl had decided to be a Clark for the evening too, which probably means she was a Scott or a Roger, but let’s not mind about that. Just cancel all the previous ‘was’es and let’s get to it. She had decided to exercise her own underdeveloped subversive streak. She therefore turned to the young man: ‘Hey, Junior, nice try, but how about this: write your own goddam story. You don’t want to annoy the Unicorn. That horn’s sharp!
As for Kirsty, the collie, she had no idea what was going on, She was just there for the midnight walk. Oh and a go on the roundabout. She was rather partial to that.
The End
lol
(in our defense, if the internet is rife with ‘oh, how can you say not to the plight of: orphans, veterans and I-know-this-will-be-a-killer-app gofundme sites surely there is a place for a…err… gowriteme?)
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will try (but I’m coming to believe that while we are all equal citizens in the virtual world, some places are less comfortable than others)… fortunately, the blogosphere is truly a limitless world.
Hmm, sounds like a perfect job for ChatGPT or some other AI bot. Reading some of the articles about them makes me hesitant to try one myself, though I’m always entertained by the answers they come up with.
Your door flower is certainly determined!
I wonder about people sometimes. Well, not the people who are required in their jobs to write, but I’ve seen bloggers discuss the convivence of a AI app for writing stories. Why would a person, provided they are writing for the enjoyment of the process even consider that?
yes it certainly is lol
The flower is a survivor. Unless it starts to tear the door out, i’d leave it be.
What happened to the trio depends on whether you want to go with the standard “haunted merry-go-round” that is running by itself and do they get on and what’s next, or if the dog just scares up a critter or two eating people leftovers. Could go many ways.
We’re watching closely… lol
ended with a story that, while I enjoy the finished product, did not have much fun with the creative portion. (It was one of those all-night half-dream/half-think run-throughs of ideas). It was somewhat educational in that it confirms my personal belief that 99% of the time. what we refer to as ‘Writer’s Block’ is nothing more than letting the inner critic gain the upper hand, i.e. “That’s a stupid idea”
You’re going to submit that?! Can hear the Readers now!”
lol
alls well that ends with
I think the door plant read the book Jack and the bean plant 🙂
Very whimsical.