The online magazine Smith had a bunch of folks write the story of their own lives in a single sentence. The book that resulted from it is titled, “Not Quite What I Was Planning”. Wonderful book!
Read the full NPR story here. And I challenge you to write your own six word memoir.
Mine is: Birth to Emma, then Gibson. Amazing!
What is yours? I’d love to see them and if you click on the NPR story there’s a place to go where you can share yours as well.
Here’s some from the book itself:
Couldn’t cope so I wrote songs. (Aimee Mann)
Born in the desert. still thirsty. (Georgene Nunn)
A sake mom, not soccer mom. (Shawna Hausman)
Painful nerd kid, happy nerd adult. (Linda Williamson
Share yours! And I’d love to challenge someone more task-oriented than myself to start this as a MEME so it could spread across the whole blogosphere!
And if you wanted to make this a writing assignment to get your creativity flowing, do this:
1. What’s a six word one for your work life?
2. Six word one for your lovelife?
3. Six word one for your relationships with your parents, spouse, significant other or even a pet. Mine for my pet would be, “Pug love everflowing, neverending, always present pugilicious.”
You could also do a series of them around the decades of your life as well!
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