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Sic Transit Gloria Thursday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 21, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

I will avoid the obvious, (and oh-so-tempting), joke about the command of our bloghop host, zoe, being to write a story, using six and only six sentences and instead say, “Moses ain’t got nothin on zoe!!!”* and her instructions for this here bloghop here. While most, if not many, of the stories here are fiction, on occasion we will see Six Sentence Stories that are accurate accounts of real events and/or experiences. Last week’s narrator notwithstanding, this today, (the photo) depicts what I’m begin told in my online seminar on writing synopsiseses** is the ‘inciting incident’ of this week’s Six Sentence Story.

“No, screw you!”

“…and, besides that’s not a car, it’s a fricken truck!”

” And, seeing how we’re looking for an accurate understanding of the message on your sign, is one a statement of qualifying authority and the other a command?”

“If I’m at the head of the line, what makes you think the people behind me know that I’m only following instructions and not driving way, way too slow, just to, like, be a jerk?!”

“Yes, I know you’re only doing your job, that doesn’t mean we have to enjoy the regimentation conditioning that’s in full expansion mode, choking the celebration of the individual, like an algae bloom in a small lake.”

“Thanks, and no, while you did nothing to protect me and/or my car, you have, in fact, saved me from yet another Six Sentence Sword hanging over my head!”

* to para-mangle a famous line from the movie, ‘Training Day’ with Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke

** not a ‘real’ plural form of synopsis, but a preferred form, at least around here

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 25, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Like, since the items that are considered suitable and appropriate to make up a List of Ten Things of Thankful, are defined, first, by how I feel about them and only then, (in theory) are vetted for inclusion into the List. So, anything that happens (in the last week or so) that elicits a, ‘hey! glad I saw that!’ or ‘man, good thing I was paying attention’ or even, ‘that was cool! can’t wait to include it on the List of this week’s TToT!’ is valid (for inclusion on a/the List). I’ll presume to know the mind, (and heart and intentions). of our Founderinae, L. Lewis (still no relation to CS Lewis! damn…. hey! wait just a minute… there’s item 1). and base my List this week on some things that simply made me respond.

1) Books that I’m grateful for reading accidentally as a child/young clark:

Out of the Silent Planet Trilogy (Lizzi’s Uncle) (7th…maybe 8th grade)
A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle)
Tom Swift and …. (series of what we call YA books, nowadays) ‘Victor Appleton II’ (around 6th grade)
Bullfinch’s Mythology …. around 6th grade

2) Speaking of books and the Wakefield Doctrine! So, I was driving around today and listening to one of the two college radio stations I have on presets …. ok! college radio, having 2 stations in the area that I can listen to when I’m tired of playing, ‘I can name that song in 1 note’ while listening to the two dinosaur rock station,

3) So, back to today. What I’m grateful for was listening to a radio program about the life of Harriet Tubman, and the narrator mentions some connection between Tubman and Frederick Douglass and he says, “Douglass makes that clear, in his third autobiography.” third. autobiography. I laughed out loud* in my car and said. (to no-one, being along and all) ‘what a roger!’

4) that Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers), it’s not only a useful tool for understanding the people in my life, but it’s fun.

5) Gots to mention Una. Simply my role model.

6) The Gravity Challenge. We’re still going strong, a year later… Val, Joy, Lisa, Sarah, Kristi and Christine… been a very good thing

7) zoe’s Six Sentence Story… because it’s a challenge every week and fun (and educational), to watch the others create whole stories, (complete with engaging characters, suspense and humour), all in less sentences than…well, less than a Seven Sentence Story

8) Phyllis. First Reader of the Chapters-that-must-be-written each weekend. From the first chapter of ‘Blogdominion’, right through to this week’s Chapter 13 of ‘Almira’

9) Almira this week, in Chapter 13: we get back to Circe, Kansas and join Dorothy and Becky Stilwell engaged in conversation, (in the Town Square on one of the wrought-iron benches that encircle the Fountain (that never has any water)… in any event, we get some insight into how it came to be that Dorothy enrolled in Sarah Lawrence College (Hint: Aunt Em had two uncles, both of who stayed behind in Philadelphia when the Sauvages emigrated to this country. They stayed, Emily’s father didn’t, preferring to move west. They got wealthy and Dorothy’s grandfather didn’t) and, I have it on good authority that a) Dorothy is going to visit the Charity Ward at St Mary’s and 2) Becky Stillworth has a crush on Hunk Dietrich

10) SR 1.3 (ten four, Eleanor, ten four)

*lol

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6th Month Sari -the Wakefield Doctrine- (no, stay with me…. it’ll make sense, I promise)

June 2, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

I really should be (writing) over at SoCS with Kerry and them, this June morning, the clouded sky outside my window hinting a day as boring as the inside of an empty cereal box. But, today is Thursday and our friend zoe invites all to join her in her goal to write a story employing six, and only six sentences. It’s a challenge and it’s a puzzle, an exercise for the skills and wit that surely form the basis of our presence in this, the blogosphere, for is not this part of the virtual world, the very essence of 6th Grade composition class, all rules and discipline, barely restraining the youthful enthusiasm of the class? (And me, in the back of that classroom, wrought-iron legged desks dividing the rows, not staring sullenly at my desk because, well, because the dream of being a transfer student, (whose 5 year record of smart-assed under-achieving had been expunged by the parental change of address), is realized here, a lifetime later. Today our Teacher/friend-with-the-cool-and-still-un-broken-toys/one with an enthusiasm sufficient to make up for self-consciousness, zoe says that ‘stall’ is the prompt word for this week’s Six Sentence Story.

….Hey! it looks like I’m done!!

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘surely this is what they mean by ‘Muesday’*

May 31, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

* no, seriously, that’s the term for the first workday after a long weekend. Go look it up, if you don’t believe me!

How good is this Wakefield Doctrine at helping a person on the path of self-enlightenment? Very darn good. Let me use myself as an example. As alert Readers know, I’ve started sending out Query Letters and Synopseses..ss in the effort to find an agent to help get ‘Blogdominion’ published. I started last week and have sent out 4 so far. But that’s not the example part. I got a reply email Saturday letting me know that, while my query was appreciated, it (Blogdominion) was ‘not a perfect fit’ (for this particular agent). And…. I feel good. One more step down the road. (No, not that road… that’s an entirely different book and, for that matter, an entirely different version of the story!**).

And I credit, attribute to, and otherwise say, ‘What a Doctrine’. Not simply because, ‘I don’t care what happens in this process’… trust me, I totally care about the outcome of the process. It’s just that I somehow know that I’m doing the footwork. Its been like this since I made the decision to write this here blog here. The Wakefield Doctrine itself, as a perspective, as a viewpoint on things, as a fun and useful insight into life and reality and such, has always provided me with the energy to move forward. Today as then, it has never once been ‘work’ to write a blog Post. Over the years since, I’ve found myself confronted with tasks and efforts that should have made me want to take up a new hobby, but nothing that should have been difficult-to-the-point-of-not-trying has been anything but satisfying. Scary, sure. Daunting, that too. But there has always been the sense, ‘it’s all right, I need to do this as part of demonstrating the use of the Wakefield Doctrine’.

Weird, huh? And now this, ‘write-a-book-and-get-it-published thing’, Doctrine again! The reason I started writing ‘Blogdominion‘ was that I thought it the best way to improve my writing. Practice by doing and all? And so, when I got the email from the agent, while my first reaction was kinda, ‘damn, too bad’, the second was to smile and think, ‘damn! what a Doctrine!’

Hey! Chapter 9 of ‘Almira’ is out. A bit of backstory from Almira’s childhood years growing up in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Really an interesting time in history. I’ve claimed ‘historical fiction’ as my genre for this story, the research is proving as interesting as writing the story! Pretty darn significant changes in the realm of the perception of individual rights (in general) and labor/worker rights (in particular). Much change. So, in this Chapter, we get a glimpse of the life social in a New England Mill Town.

Speaking of ‘Blogdominion’, it is, of course, up and available to read at jukepop.com and the good thing about the site is how easy it makes it read the story. Go on over, check it out and if you enjoy the story, tell someone else about it.

Ed note: Such is the Doctrine that I can hear the thoughts of some Readers (in particular, clarks), “Dude!” (these thought balloons read, floating over coffee-drinking heads, bowed in the crumbling chains of a too-deep sleep), “What the hell! Don’t tempt ‘them’… you’re getting out there a little much. There’s a tendency (in our people) to over-reach, and when doing so, stray towards the edges of anonymity (emotional and factual). But, we (and here I know Denise and Lizzi and Cynthia stand on the sidelines, fingers crossed in that most essential and basic form of prayer), we’re pulling for you!”

hey! thanks!***

**A free docTee for anyone getting that reference (without the help of ‘the Google’)

*** lol!

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11 Web Pages Open -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘clarks and the seduction of creativity’

May 18, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Funny, the process becomes the end in itself.

It’s a matter of fact that. of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, clarks are the creative ones. That being said, we have the ‘Everything Rule’ to remind us that, ‘everything happens to everyone, at one time or another’. So, when it comes to creativity as a quality (available) to people of the three worldviews, it’s not correct to say that scotts and rogers are not/cannot be creative, they can! It’s simply that how (a quality) such as ‘creativity’ manifests is where the difference lies. (And the cool thing is, when you consider the manner in which a thing/quality/characteristic exists for each, the character of that personal reality becomes all the more easily appreciated). Lets take creativity. (please!)

clarks will create (or perhaps it might be more accurate, if not more obscure to say), bring into existence that which has never existed before

rogers will create by taking that which exists (be they tiny tubes of paint, of pieces of wood or even notes on paper) and reconfigure, re-arrange into something unlike any previous arrangement of (tiny tubes of paint, of pieces of wood or even notes on paper)

scotts will take from themselves that which exists within everyone else and present it in a context that no one has, (or can recall), witnessing before

there! pretty simple, isn’t it?

clarks create, rogers innovate and scotts evoke

so the Post subtitle? why do I seem to cast creativity in the role of a temptation that might be better off fed? Because as clarks, we create because we’re Outsiders, we are able to create because we’re Outsiders and, yet, we cannot create within ourselfs the thing that might change our Outsider natures.