Supposedly, the great Ernest Hemingway once composed a complete story in six words: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.”
Wow.
Six word stories have been the rage lately, showing up all over the Internet and inducing creative excitement locally by describing photos.
Now I hear the six word memoir is hot (see NPR’s story on a new book titled Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs By Famous and Obscure Writers).
Here’s my six word memoir:
Writer, not as funny in person.
Here’s zen’s:
I came. I saw. I photographed.
What’s yours?
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Hmmm… well, here’s one draft:
Believed that, too. Then grew up.
s/he’s still working on the draft!
Six word memoir:
Can’t take suburbia out of the boy.
OR
Poignant, finding meaning and nothingness both.
six word memoir for my daughter.
It focuses on one incident because she has yet to do much,
“One leap, small girl, broken toilet.”
Maybe it is a metaphor for something deep.
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