Edgy Mama

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?

I’m not a very good blogger. I don’t link much, either in my posts or in my sidebar.I don’t know much at search engine optimization or what my Technorati rating means. I don’t join blogging networks. I don’t even check my stats very often.

Yesterday, I did decide to check my stats, which have been pretty consistent for the past six months, according to the colorful bar graph. Then yowza! October brought me almost 13,000 unique visitors. That’s about twice my typical monthly visitation. I had close to that many folks, for some reason, last March, but nothing near that high since.

So what’s changed? My guess is that having my column at Mountain Xpress link to my website has increased the numbers. I’ve been writing my Edgy Mama column on-line since about mid-August, and it went to print in early September. Ironically, I feel that I’ve neglected my bloggie quite a bit since then, primarily because my weekly freelance responsibilities have doubled.

This increase makes me think more about my audience–you. Are you mostly from the Asheville area? Are you mostly coming here for more parenting stories? Basically, who are you and what kind of writing do you want?