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

While this is, (and will always be), ‘that blog about those three personality types that, as strange as it seems at first, not only makes sense and is useful, and a total hoot once you learn the basics’.

Yeah, that’s us.

The ‘Curator’ in the Dickensian subtitle? That would be us, your Humble and (mostly) Reliable Narrator. Say what you will about RePrints, we’re finding the process of reading old, (especially the ‘old old’ as opposed to ‘recently old’). One change in writing that jumps out at us is the POV of the early ones. Counterintuitive, at least to us, is the use of the first person singular up until… damn, don’t know (at the moment) when we shifted to this, the ‘editorial we’.

(Funny story. So I just searched for something along the lines of 1st person versus 3rd person POV and, being a clark, the ‘APA Style’ in the first search return I clicked on transformed itself, (all without telling us… I mean me….) into ‘CMS Manual of Style’! It wasn’t until I read it again did I notice the APA was American Psychological Association…. lol damn! We love it when (we) notice that kind of shit happening.

Anyway, back to our citation

Referring to yourself in the third person

Do not use the third person to refer to yourself. Writers are often tempted to do this as a way to sound more formal or scholarly; however, it can create ambiguity for readers about whether you or someone else performed an action.

Correct: I explored treatments for social anxiety.

Incorrect: The author explored treatments for social anxiety. A

(APA STYLE as opposed to CMS)

Damn! We’ve totally lost the train of thought, as often happens to we scholarly types. Also lost the Clipboard Copy of the RePrint post that was to serve as a example of our early writing.

Suffice for the moment to say, at the point we currently are, the editorial ‘we’ is preferred. It serves as a reminder of the serendipitous nature of the decision to start (and continue) writing this weblog.

Speaking of reminding, remind us to return to the topic of the writing style of the early years at the Wakefield Doctrine.

segue!!

Tonight is the unofficial start of the week’s Six Sentence Story. (as Christmas Eve is to Christmas Day… for those us less mature and adultistic* the former is the exciting time). In any event, we’re engaged in a Serial Six. Co-written with Tom. It’s a story of Supervillains and ordinary folks (well, as ordinary as characters frequenting a certain Strip Club and Lounge, at any rate) so be sure to stop in tomorrow for a bunch of fun with flash-fiction.

* not a ‘real’ word