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Well that sums up the Six Word Memoir challenge! It’s your life, can you share it or at least part of it with us and do it in JUST six words?
For those of you who may not be familiar with this Six Word Memoir, let me give you the story from the ORIGINATORS. This has been taken from the Smith Magazine web site:
“…We quickly popped in a new idea we had been kicking around: giving Hemingway‘s legendary six-word novel (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”) a personal twist. We combined the classic storytelling challenge with our passion for nonfiction confessionals and dubbed it “Six-Word Memoirs.” Then we called up some guys we met at a tech conference about this new thing called Twitter and asked if they wanted to partner up to send one daily short life story to anyone who followed our @smithmag feed. Four years and more than 200,000 Six-Word Memoirs later, we continue to be blown away by what people are capable of saying in just six words, the ways that others have adapted the form, and — not to get all Chicken Soup-y here — the unexpected little gems and gifts that launching this project has brought into our lives. In classrooms from kindergarten to graduate school, educators have found the Six-Word Memoir an inspiring writing lesson. From a third-grade classroom in New Jersey, we heard “Life is better in soft pajamas” and one student’s precocious Zen observation: “Tried surfing on a calm day.” In Charleston, South Carolina, a creative writing teacher named Junius Wright makes a series of Six-Word Memoir videos with his students each year.
So now that we are all up to speed on the how to and why for, let’s do it!!!!
Sending good health, karma to Peter – Gail
Dangerously close to the moment of truth – Weez
Can 17 days change my life? – Me
And from the “book”:
My family is overflowing with therapists – Shaina Feinberg
Boy! If I had a hammer! – Tim Barkow
We still don’t hear a single – Adam Schlesinger
Canada freezing. Gotham beckons. Hello Si! – Graydon Carter
Years in the closet. Why? Why? – Michael Callahan
Related Articles
- The Story of Your Life in Six Words (psychcentral.com)
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