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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 30, 2016 By

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

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What?

damn! where the hell did I leave that SOC headset!?!! (Item 1 the kind of mind that, after the previous sentence, replayed in ‘True-to-Life®‘ Seven-Year-Old-Hi-Fidelity, ‘You’d forget your head if it wasn’t tied on’).

Warning: Excessive randomosity (and other crimes-against-the-written-word) ahead! Yes, this is ‘one of those‘ TToT Posts!

Item 2: I grateful for having lost all rhetorical self-respect, and, for god know what reason, am comfortable passing the most errant nonsense as a well-meant and heart❤️felt TToT Post!

3) If anyone has CS Lewis’s heir’s phone number, please let me know! I need to make sure that our Founderess doesn’t not stumble across this Post without fair warning… she’s of exceptional patience and forbearance (particularly for our people*), but, damn! I’m getting ready to click ‘Next’ and I’m writing this!

Grat Item 4: remembering that, for me, the key to a successful day today is to balance: ‘you only live once, do it right’ and ‘you only live once, don’t mess it up’ and ‘you only live once, don’t worry, enjoy yourself!’

5) Una and Phyllis and the secret world

6) ‘Almira‘  hey! usually when I mention writing ‘Almira’ I’ll simply give a preview of this weeks Chapter. But, in case there are any new Readers (and, no, I’m not counting too heavily on return visits, lol) here’s a quick synopsis:

Dorothy Gale has been some strange places in her relatively short life. She has met very curious people, rallied her friends, fought off her enemies and still tries to be a good person. Problem is, she does not believe she knows who she really is and. worse, where she belongs. ‘Almira’ is the story of mis-understood people and discovering the truth about ourselves and the world we find ourselves in.

7) yeah, it’s called the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) and it’s one of the coolest, most fun things about this, ‘the bloghop-that-Lizzi-built’ and while zoe is our resident expert on all thing virginal (the Seven Guard Virgins, of course!) and is Curatoress of the BoSR/SBoR, allow me to say this: if you’re new to the TToT and you find yourself blocking on what to write, or whether what you want to write is appropriate, all you have to do is cite the SR (Secret Rule) Chapter and Verse (and include a short description of the Rule and why it applies, and you are golden.) Serially! Try it, it’s very fun.

8) work has been interesting of late, in it’s constant stress; the reason I cite the stress at work, (which is, of course, simply a part of the work I do), is that it allows me to practice learning to live right. (Having people with whom I can identify is totally the key to seeing the improvements that I have to date.)

9) Kristi for the amazing amount of work in beta reading ‘Blogdominion‘. I am aghast at what it was that I was asking of her! In my defense, this is my first story in need of beta reading and, having written it over the course of nearly six months, totally under-appreciated how much work would be involved. tres thank you, Kristi… (I would do a Capitalize everything joke here, but only Kristi would laugh… hopefully, …. someone remind me to send her a box of #2 pencils!)

10) SR 1.3  (which allows: ‘the completion of a List of Ten Items’ may serve as one of those self-same Ten Items. This accomplishment may be applied for the 10th Item only, unless there are Items that remain, unused and available for attribution.) (… hey! Item 7 Readers!  like that)

 

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Six Sentence (out of a) Story (of like, 3,400 sentences) -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 28, 2016 By

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"... damn! I guess I still should. I am James Bond and this is the 1960's"

Wednesday night and I need to type by monitor light, as the curtains on the windows (in the room I use for an office) are always open, it’s 9:33 pm and Summer time. So, like 5 minutes ago I looked up and saw the window coated with tiny-motion, flying things with too many appendages. I had the desk light on and it must have been every neon, bar/nightclub sign in the world casting an invitation, like expensive perfume, into the path of every passing bug. Two words: ewww  (no, not for the imagery of the neon temptation, although I must admit that the lure, allure and fantasy of the real thing, on a late city night is better imagined, than actually experienced). So, anyway, I turned off the light which solved the problem in two ways, one rather characteristic of the human condition: a) the bugs no longer were tempted to dash themselves on the transparent glass reefs of my house and 2) I can’t see them anymore, so out of sight, out of mind.

But this is about zoe’s weekly challenge to write a story employing six and only six sentences, the Six Sentence Story bloghop. I may be taking liberties the rules this week by trying to combine writing tasks. I’m working on ‘Almira’ (and editing ‘Blogdominion’) so time is not my friend. I thought I’d grab a scene from as upcoming Chapter in Almira and write it as this week’s  Six Sentence Story, which btw, has ‘puff’ as the prompt word.

Frederick Prendergast felt the flickering warmth of the fireplace on his back as he sat at the head of the ornately-carved dining table on a cold snowy Sunday evening in December.

Grace Byrne stood, half in and half out of the kitchen, the swinging butler’s door providing her with as much of a sense of security as she’d found since arriving from Ireland to serve as Nanny in the Prendergast household, the brighter lights from within the kitchen created a somewhat stark contrast to her face, half-bathed in the warm rose hue washing up from the candles on the table, like rising flood waters.

“The twins are staying over in Boston tonight, with their mother, as nanny you are without responsibilities until sometime tomorrow,” Frederick’s voice was that of every young man’s, (or at least some young men), a powerful mix of hope, silky with insinuation and yet, barbed with the unspoken invitation for her willing complicity, his desire urgent enough to offer a darkly-bright invitation in seemingly harmless words, yet not yet strong enough to speak openly about what he desired.

The kitchen provided temporary refuge for the girl, one place in the mansion where her role and her duties were clearly defined, daylight-bright and re-assuring, the dining room, with changing light from the fireplace tempting her eyes to see what she felt rather than what she knew to be right.

“Cream puff, Mr Prendergast? Each one with a crust light enough to bite into, small but filled with a delightful surprise, I made them myself,”  Grace Byrne waved wistfully to a little girl running through meadows in a far away country and stepped out of the kitchen, the door swinging shut on it’s own, leaving only the dim candle light to kindle the darkness that smoldered between the 18 year old girl, alone in a new world and the vainly insatiable man who smiled and leaned back in his chair.

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘…on being in love with a long-lost twin*’

July 19, 2016 By

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

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Warning! Advanced (and semi-coherence challenged) Doctrine Post. Do not read this Post* unless you have achieved a Level 5 Point B proficiency ranking. No, really! This is about the Doctrine, the Three String Theory, hope-in-the value-of-unexpressed aspects and (it) borrows heavily from Carlos Castaneda and don Juan (no, not a mis-print), Walt Disney, Miss Bonnie and the dreams that we all share, whether we tell ourselves about them in the morning when we ‘wake up’ or not.

…you been warned.

Notice!!! Incredibly complex and subtly insightful, chock-frickin-full of revelations, discovery and flat-out Tuesday-samadhi has been postponed! Following is the Post that I found sitting under my keyboard this morning.

Hey! you ever see that episode of the Simpsons when Homer somehow has to win a steak-eating contest and, as he and Marge sit at the table in the restaurant, waiting for the current champion and the contest to begin, Homer starts stuffing his face with bread sticks from a basket on the table?

lol  I kind of feel that way this morning.

Allow me to explain.

I signed up for an online seminar on ‘How to Write Excellent Queries, Opening Pages and …” and today is the first day of the three-day course. Today is all about the instructional segment, how-to’s and such. Tomorrow and Thursday, a panel of literary agents will be available to ‘talk to’ online. With questions and discussions, I assume. Should be beneficial and all, as I totally need to find the right agent to get ‘Blogdominion’ published. Regular Readers, familiar with my belief in the ‘we only have so many words in our heads on any given morning’ theory of creative writing are surely going all Marge Simpson right at about this point in this Post. ‘Homer! don’t fill up on breadsticks!’

lol!  (shit!  gotta lose the ‘lol’, they’ll totally think me to be an amateur writer!  wait a minute! I am an amateur writer!  hey! someone send me some money! Care of the: ‘Lets-send-clark-money-so-he-can-say-he-gets-paid-for-his-writing-and-therefore-somehow-is-not-an-amateur-writer-if-we-agree-the-meaning-is-limited-to-recompense-which-surely-is-reasonable-look-how-he-used-the-cool-word-‘recompense” Fund)

OK play time is over, got to step back and get into character as Jules said to Vincent. Will try to report my progress, later in the week.

 

 

* yeah, cool phrase, will try to remember what it meant to me on Sunday that caused me to feel the need to write this here post here.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘as expressed in replies, who said rhetorical Rorshach? was that you, zoe? lol’

July 16, 2016 By

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

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(not-old Readers? Bob Newhart. he invented the form that I’m working for a recognizable imitation of with this post. check the bottom, I’ll put a link of the Master at work.)

 

1) “why no, not yet, but they say the nineties for the coming week, come on summertime.”

2) “yeah, you would think, with as long and thick a coat as she has, but she enjoys sitting and guarding the yard.”

3) “well, hell, she manages to enjoy nearly everything, one of the more gifted (in terms of seeing things from a positive perspective) people I know.”

4) “it’s going along, staying busy which is good always interesting”

5)  “I’d say it was the problem-solving, of course, another side of that is the part I enjoy the least!

6) “…pretty good, pretty good, we’re at Chapter 16 this week and, without giving anything away, our main characters are beginning to see, or maybe just sense, what it is that’s standing between them and a life they believe they should live.”

7) “they’re pretty remarkable bunch, imagine the discipline! every morning a photo!  what? well, no, it varies, but the thing about the Challenge is, it gets inside your head”

8) “pretty much the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules, the community is so supportive and the goal, (of ten things). is so positive, you don’t need a BoSR/SBoR…. but tell me it ain’t fun!”

9)  “yeah, she’s amazing… my second favorite story about her? that she started this whole now-gigantically-beneficial ‘hop, writing a list on her own, and I do mean on her own…as in ‘2 comments showing up every other Post’ alone, as in bad grammar, tear-steeped determination to see it through alone….cool, very cool”

10) “well, you know!”

 

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re-print Friday3 -the Wakefield Doctrine- ’cause I’m in a ‘words-beget-words’ mode at the moment, but thank you for asking’

July 15, 2016 By

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(not everyone may know this, but that red building in Chicago? World Headquarters for the Omni Corporation... read all about in 'Blogdominion'

(not everyone may know this, but this red building in Chicago? World Headquarters for the Omni Corporation… read all about it in ‘Blogdominion’2

 

How do I know it’s been too long between ‘normal’ Doctrine Posts? Well, for starters, when I typed the first line, (which is always the first line), of this Post, the fricken spellcheck forgot how to spell ‘theory’!  (I don’t know about you* but I’ve noticed a tendency to, at certain times/moods, where I don’t bother being overly careful with my spelling and, will actually get mad when it, (the spellcheck, not my spelling). doesn’t correct the word fast enough so I don’t have to stop. Anyway, so I’m typing my intro line and when I get to ‘…the theory of…’ I mistype it (no big deal, as I’ve said) but I looked and it corrected to ‘their’, as in ‘…the their of…’ and I’m all, ‘whoa! grasp the telephone receiver firmly and await further instructions’!!1

So, anyway….

Back to my shameless self-promotion. (ed. note: holy smokes! my auto-correct is such a roger!! yeah, I know… no kidding…but  but! I mis-typed the word ‘shameless’ (well, got to stay with the theme of the day, don’t I?) and it corrected to ‘seamless’  lol

‘Almira‘  we’re somehow approaching the half-way point in our story! If you’re not familiar with ‘Almira’… come on! go here and read the story from the start. It’s Summer Time! you can pull up juke pop on your little cell phone and read it at the beach… although I should warn you, a major part of our tale takes place in Lawrence Massachusetts in 1911-1912…. in the winter! brrr! In any event, my seeming surprise at where I am in the novel is quite genuine, in that I’m taking is what I believe is called ‘seat of the pants’  approach to writing. I write by the Chapter, literally. Have no idea how this thing ends. That is, of course, the fun and exciting (and impressively stressful) result seat-of-the-pants writing.

Oh well, what am I gonna do.  Chapter 15 due out this weekend… Dorothy is forced to accept that there is something wrong in her life, and at the same time, something quite exciting (not giving anything away, but Tom Hardesty is there at her time of need and gives her a ride home), Eliza meets Hunk Dietrich and she’s not half as surprised at his response to her as he is… and, is it me, or is Dr. Thaddeus Morgan growing shorter and more …. Professor Marvel-istic  like the guy in that other story?

Hey, really have enjoyed our time together this morning.

 

* well, that’s not quite true, I do know about you… a lot, too much you might say, all due to the totally fun and useful theory of clarks, scotts and rogers!**

1)  …. you non-old Readers might fail to to feel the pleasure of the idiom ‘hold the phone‘…. because at a certain time in history, it was not a given that your telephone was not in your hand already, as in ‘all-the-damn-time, like,-why-don’cha-get-it-surgically-attached-save-yourself-some-valuable-texting-time-not-having-to-pick-it-up…. wait, that was a joke! no, I don’t think they have that yet.

2) ‘Blogdominion’ the first in the Sister Margaret Ryan Series.

** I will tell you! I know the characteristics of the personal reality of the three personality types so well, that I don’t need to make a conscious effort anymore (“…hmmm lets, see…’has a tendency to never throw anything away, keeping tupperware in the refrigerator as long as there are more than 2 adjacent molecules of foodstuffs, clinging, rattling-around-on-the-bottom, or giving the hint of color to the edge of the top, believes in using only one set of bath towels at a time, always re-washing the same set, rather than cycling sets, believes that the movie-making sun rises and sets on Ken Burns…. roger!  got it!) and so, when I meet people, a part of my mind is observing the person through the ‘lens’ of the Wakefield Doctrine. Very helpful!

3) huh! didn’t need an old post, after all!

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