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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…between fiction and reality. Does it really matter where the line is drawn?’

July 19, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! You’ve been good Readers. A ‘reward’ is surely in order. And what do Readers, (or audiences or (those) curious about a sequence), enjoy more than what used to be called trailers?

Trailers-with-backstories-and-the-opportunity-to-influence-the-ongoing-Narrative!

So here are the current Serial Sixes and some behind the scenes*.

Rue DeNite: originally from Martha’s Vineyard (we think); has a child but she taken away; is a dancer at the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge; the owner, Lou Ceasare, thinks highly enough of her to send her on a dangerous reconnaissance mission in Miami (FLA)
Ian Devereaux: he and Leanne are still an item; he and Diane are not, (through no fault of either), given their respective predominant worldviews; spending almost too-much time in his office (or at the Bottom of the Sea)
Six Sentence Café & Bistro: well, lets take a roll-call: the Proprietors, Tom, the Sophmore (kinda of a timetraveler), an excellent doggie, and a summer waning, which almost surely demands a barbecue

Alright, what does this have to do with the three little bears?**

*Waay big caveat here, yo. These serials are total SOP. That said, valid insight/suggestion as to characters are not ignored.

** flashback to college dorm days… you can only imagine… picture if you will an: 18 y.0. clark, scott and roger!

That picture of the three no-longer college-age progenitors at the top of the post? Erase the wrinkles, restore the hair, reduce the weight (somewhat) and cleanse their minds of the years of love-and-loss, hope-and-disappointment, dreams-and-dimming-energies. Friends who had sufficient complimentary foibles and faults to make each a better person, some in the immediate context and others in the far-distant future, when time and age distills each of the three closer and closer to their true spirits.

Clearly they haven’t aged a day.

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- (ok, a RePrint… we promise)

July 12, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

We’ve promised a RePrint. But contemporaneous writing has elbowed them aside like a hungry scott in a high school cafeteria line. (And, come on, you remember! The lunch ladies all laughed. Them lunch ladies loved them some scotts cutting in line.)

Talk about your psychosocial ‘Lost World’ (1960) High School! A land that Time repressed! lol

(wait! We’re feeling a bit guilty* Nick and Mimi and Denise were kind enough to comment on yesterday’s exegesis re: Referential Authority (The Hunt for Artifacts!) It would be rude of us not to include (an) actual reprinted-’cause-we-already-wrote-it post. Seeing how tomorrow is Six Sentence Story day and then, Friday is ‘Is Unicorn a verb or an adjective‘ bloghop day.

We would be remiss, bigtime, if’n we don’t produce the thrice-promised post.

Here ya go (Thanks, guys)

‘the reality of worldviews and everyday life’ the Wakefield Doctrine (an effort to apply Molly’s Rule*)

July 23, 2014

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

hey! Readers between the ages of 30 to 40 …quick!! what performers are the 18 to 20 year olds in college listening to right now, today? …don’t laugh, ’41 to 60 y.o.s what are the names of the three highest drawing live music acts that will bring out the 13 to 15 years old set? ok, good, …don’t get too confident! golf fans!!! yeah, you!! who is the current top seed male tennis player? (hell, lets make it easy on the golf fans… hey! golfers!!! who recently deposed the (previous) top player on the LPGA? …no, I didn’t think so.)

People sometimes have difficulty ‘getting’ the Wakefield Doctrine and the leading reason for this is the concept of worldview (aka personal reality). The Doctrine is predicated on the notion that we all live in a reality that is personal. The ‘personality types’ of the Wakefield Doctrine are simply markers for the (characteristic) worldview that a given person grows up, develops and lives their lives in, day in and day out. Rather than ask you, the Reader, a series of questions and then seeing what category you fit in, the Wakefield Doctrine would have you try to infer how a person is ‘relating themself to the world around them. If you can do that, then you will know more about that person than they know about themselves. And the way we get to the point of being able to correctly infer the worldview of a person is by a thorough understanding of the characteristics of the three worldviews:

the reality of the Outsider that results in a clarklike personality person, (…sitting invisibly next to you through 4 years of high school, dreaming of the chance of being normal and you expect him to believe that washing your hair is the only reason you can’t go to a fuckin football game… or giving the freshman rogers their first look at MC Escher and Maxfield Parrish prints only to be left sitting there on the single bed with the macramé wall hangings and the ‘hang in there, baby’ poster taped to the cinderblock wall as he just about runs out of your dorm room because his girlfriend from high school decided she would entertain a further apology )

the life of the Predator, who survives growing up in a world of Predator and Prey simply is that person (male orfemale… yay!! for the female…woohooo!! scottian women…. the stiletto shoes industry bows before your plunging neckline…. and male scotts?? hell, how else was I ever expecting to end up in the Principals office/local police station/soldout concert in Boston with 3 dollars in gas and 40 minutes to get there?!?! of the three personality types, who better knows that life is all about today?)

the orderly, predictable, quantifiable and there-is-a-Right-way-to-do-things world of the Herd Member, rogersto the right of you and rogers to the left of you, they are all around, always, simply because the roger lives in the center of the herd….which herd? does not matter… why are they of the herd? didn’t you hear me? they are in the center of the herd, with rogers to the left and rogers to the right…what more do you need to know? male or female, they are there, wherever you go, unless you are stranded on a desert island and, you start to think, ‘well, I’m here alone stranded on a desert island, so I guess there are no rogers around’ and then you realize you are talking to a decorated coconut….and you are not alone)

ok…out of time today. Molly’s Rule? go ask her… here’s her Facebook page (she’s a friend of the Doctrine and so, probably won’t have you blocked for stalking her…but you never know, better go ahead and tell her the Doctrine sent ya)

Don’t forget!!! tomorrow is Guest Post Thursday’s Weekly Once a Week Guest Post….Thursday rogers!

*once we were talking about writing on one of the Saturday Night Drive calls…and I was asking the same old question: how to better get the Doctrine across to the Readers, and Molly, who knows her way around story writing said, ‘you don’t need to give them every possible fact or information, assume they are intelligent enough to get it and if they need more information, they can ask‘ (or words to that effect). I try to keep the Rule in mind, and sometimes even manage to apply it.

* yeah, right! guilty. kinda an appendix, inculcated social limiter when it comes to clarks. rogers? they totally feel guilt but it’s more often than not the exquiste sauce on the banquet of life’s multi-course meal and.. scotts? the ketchup on the side of the mouth resulting from ‘burgers-on-the-run’ to be swiped with a forearm as they head to their next adventure

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 9, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Appearing weekly since 1978, the TToT asks the question: “Sure, your shoelace broke that morning you were running behind because you were up all night with nightmares that involved lovers made of wet-linen bedsheets, friends who had a FB reel that you needed to see (’cause it was fricken’ wicked funny) and, and…such.

But the true and genuine benefit of writing these weekly blogposts is found in how it allows us: more choice in our day, in general, and in how we relate ourselves to the world around us and the people who make it up, specifically. Not a positive thinking thing so much as a practice in perspectives.

1) Una (spotter)

2) Phyllis (being spotted)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) weird-assed door flower

5) the Six Sentence Story

6) a pile of dirt (aka no-cost cardio)

7) the health (and physical capacity) to move the above dirt from ‘there’ to ‘elsewhere’. With assistance, of course, from Phyllis and Una (Grat(s) 1 & 2)

8) something, something

9) a call in conversation with Friend of the Doctrine, Cynthia. Always enjoyable, informative and fun. (If’n you have or website that’s gotten like, that shirt that you love but has become so worn-out that you feel relieved (and dissappointed) when you remember not to wear it to certain occasions, or, maybe you’re thinkin’ a website would be good to have.) Cynthia has that all-to-rare combination of empathy, imagination and a grasp on how to get it done. You probably should stop over at her site. Tell her, the Doctrine sent ya.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 “… of course you can use the impending completion of a TToT post as an Item! jeez, that you should have to ask! be sure to make it Number 10, we’re not without a sense of propriety, already. that you should have to even ask. oy vey” (ibid. op. cit. yo)

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Too(s)day -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 6, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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…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).

out of time!

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 14, 2023 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop.

This week, we provide photo-clues to the people, places and things that have caused us to feel gratacious.*

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Zombie Christmas Project Chapter: Ate (No, as a matter of fact, we have not given up on this yet…)

5) the paint-the-porch project (Warning! Strictly Filler Grat here. The picture? So that’s what imparts credibility to a: “I’m grateful for Ace (‘Ace-is-the-Place’) Hardware store” So, that all it takes to claim grat legit these days!!?

6) sure, why not? have you read any Wakefield Doctrine TToT lists before this?!? Hey! nearly genuine Grat: I remembered to take a Before photo of the paint-the-porch-aganza (funny how, as a clark, I rarely remember to document those of my efforts to alter the world.)

Before:

After:

7) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

8) something, something

9) weird-ass animal noises in the middle of the night… sounds like we have a family of jackalopes or chupacabra what moved in to our woods… like a feral cat on LSD. If we hadn’t already completed this week’s TToT we totally would have added: ‘Indoors’ (subset: walls and windows and doors that don’t open less’n you want them to.’)

10) Secret Rule 1.3

* not a ‘real’ word

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