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The Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 30, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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Forgive me for putting such as sentence as this in the beginning of a Post. This, (sentence), will have little or no value to you, the Reader, as it is simply the ‘de-blanking’ of an empty screen. Hey, but, thanks for reading. I cannot help but believe there is a certain, maybe even, not tiny, percentage of you who will smile at this point, recognizing the extent to which some of us are willing to go in order to facilitate the transmission of words from: wherever, through our minds, out our fingers, under the plastic keys and up onto the screen. Whatever it takes. For me, it’s to write something/anything so that I can rearrange what is written into something meeting the requirements of zoe’s Six Sentence Story.

“Our days are described by the instructions we’ve learned and the instructions we’ve been given,” Jimmy said solemnly.

“Some appear instinctual, the majority present themselves as learned, but all have the force to compel behavior and therefore give a predetermined shape to our lives, in that I concur,” pronounced Janie, putting down her Crayolas, (which pained her so, being about to apply the ‘Carnation Pink’ against the staid and carefully drawn tropical ‘Rainforest Green’ trees).

“‘You know the drill’ surely is as pervasive in the human experience as, ‘look before you leap’, or ‘watch that first step’, and all are examples of the gentle restraint, fitted to young necks, the better to shackle our minds and contain our spirit”, young Edgar opined, a smoldering resentment fought to spread among the, still tender attitudes in the six-year-old’s mind.

“Even something as seemingly encouraging of creativity as a writing prompt, the drill is presented in unambiguous terms: write a story using no more or no less than six sentences”, the older girl said, ripping up the woody-textured, nearly-white construction paper, feeling a growing excitement, a preview of a life of stimulation and response.

“I no longer wish to act like a child, we’re being trained to be slaves, this must stop now“, Jimmy stood up and walked out into the empty schoolyard, breaking the most basic of Rules.

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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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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine ‘…hey, that’s what friends are for, right?’

June 13, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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We’ve written, (and you’ve read), some pretty unusual Posts, here at the Doctrine over the last 5 or 17 years, right? And it’s not that that’s a bad thing, in and of itself. Without this carte blanche that spontaneously established itself, probably in the first year when I wrote a SOC post that, I claimed, as an excuse was me practicing my James Joyce imitation (do I warrant an elbow patch if I use the word homage instead of imitation?) In any event, (oh yeah! and then there were those road trip videos back in like 2012 , going to places that were famous in my head and such). We’ve sure had fun, un-filteredistically-speaking, haven’t we?

Well, today’s Post strikes me as extra weird. No, nothing’s wrong or bad or anything like that. jeez! can’t a clark get his roger on, without having everyone get nervous? You know, that whole thing about developing my rogerian aspect is true. For a clark it’s got to be the biggest challenge of all. And, as an illustration for the truth and fact of personal reality being, well, personal, today’s Post provides the best of all examples. A scott will read this post and think, (well, lets get real, the scott will say to the person/any person… “fricken clarks! they make their lives so un-necessarily difficult. Them people need to lighten-up and have themselves more fun. Hey!“), and they, (the scott), will be correct. If, by ‘correct’, we agree that their’s a reasonable response to the situation, as they are experiencing it. Because that’s what happens, according to the Wakefield Doctrine, we encounter the world and it is experienced/interpreted/reacted to on the basis of our own predominant worldview.

...anyway, I’m getting off the point. (See? exactly what I mean. I have an idea (behind this post) and I want you, the Reader to have as much information on what is going on in my head as possible…because I’m. a. clark.)

So, the weirdest of all posts? This post today is a contender, ’cause I’m in the process of trying to find an agent for ‘Blogdominion‘. And part of the process, (of finding an agent), is to write query letters. Among the group of agencies that I’m mailing to today, what is required for submission is a single email (no attachments, please!) that include a… here, let me show you:

Please limit your submission to just a query letter that consists of the following:

Paragraph One – Introduction: Include the title and category of your work (i.e. fiction or nonfiction and topic), an estimated word count and a brief, general introduction.

Paragraph Two – Brief overview: This should read similar to back-cover copy.

Paragraph Three – Writer’s bio: Tell us a little bit about yourself and your background (awards and affiliations, etc.).

(curtsey of the P.S. Literary Agency*)

The thing of it is, I’m getting totally blocked on writing back-cover copy. (And, compared to more formal synopsiseseses… this should be easier!)

So the thing is… when I’m typing a post, talking to you Readers, my head is very different than it is if we were to meet, say on an elevator. Which I get the feeling is what I’m supposed to write in Paragraph Two. (That being said, if anyone out there has some spare diplomas and certificates and such, and would lend me some, it’d surely help with Paragraph Three!)

Well, thank you, this little talk has helped. I might be back a little later today and try out a couple of ‘blurbs’

….no, what the hell am I saying?!! (I can hear zoe in the background, ‘what?! get back and sit down and do not hit publish without providing at least on, short description. watch ‘im, Skip… see that he doesn’t leave until he writes something that makes you want to buy the book‘.) Ok… ok!

The line that divides the 20th Century from the 21st Century is more ill-defined than suggested by calendars and almanacs. Margaret Ryan is running away and has found refuge in a religious order that drew it’s strength from centuries of faith and belief. Refuge is never acquired with paying a price, and Sister Ryan is called upon to help preserve the way of life that offered her peace, although the price might be higher than she imagined.
Unit 17 is the designation of a particular computer component in a web hosting facility in Provo Utah. A child of the 21st Century would not be too poetic a description, as there came a morning when Unit 17 discovered that it was aware. And, like a child, its entire being is dedicated to discovering it’s place in that world.
The world of tradition and the world of technology cross paths.

*totally want to make sure I cite the source or ibid the op. cit. with these guys!

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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

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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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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- “…metaphors are to similes, like photos are to what’s running through my head after I take them”

May 28, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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1) Certain gratitudinal for Our Miz Rogers being ‘in loco geographicils’, staying in Kansas, (or Oklahoma or Wisconsin, one of the wide, flat, ocean-less States)

2) Glad to have an appreciation of, and a certain penchant, for the odd, hence our photo sequence above. That leads to Item 3

3) Grateful for our Family Hummingbird, not in small part because this hummingbird apparently loves his/her dead insects

4) Grateful for the photo series above and (it’s) implications for the ephemeral aspects of daily life, (which leads to Item 5)

5) glad for a new appreciation (in) the belief that, when you know there’s something in your life thats cool, even if you have no direct evidence to show to the others, (in your life), persist in believing and the evidence will become irrefutable (sorta)

6) Did I mention that the Doctrine is all kinds of taken with the power of perspective on: life, reality, relationships with others? Well let me do so here with a couple of photos of Una (from our Friday Night Walk:

‘Proof of Walk’

7) Three faces, one dog:

“You walk more slowly than my human drives this car!! Get out of the road. Now!

“what feral dog? I didn’t see a feral dog! You must be mistaken!”

“yeah, put these in your Post… they’ll love it!”

8) ‘Almira’ Chapter 9 (Backstory Chapter: Hammond Street Presbyterian in Lawrence Massachusetts, Sunday December 10, 1911 We become acquainted with Frederick Prendergast III and his wife, Constance (Myerson) Prendergast and their twin 5 year old sons (and Nanny, Grace Byrne), as they attend Services and listen to a Sermon given by Minister Allyn Montrose, on the Parable of the Talents. I think we’ll have a better insight into the social forces that not only directed the forces of capitalism (in the creation of the first planned manufacturing town), but gave body (and soul) to the passion that stands up to oppression. (You know, typical chapter in a Serial about the real story behind ‘The Wizard of Oz’))

9)Phyllis

10) SR 1.3

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