Author Topic: Six Word Memoir (Read 9712 times)

[BTF]Gator · « **on:** February 07, 2008, 05:16:11 PM »

Six Word Memoir

The idea is to sum up your life in six words. i have seen this done with some pretty incredible collections elsewhere.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18768430

Once asked to write a full story in six words, legend has it that novelist Ernest Hemingway responded: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn."

After Harvard, had baby with crackhead.
- Robin Templeton

70 years, few tears, hairy ears.
- Bill Querengesser

Watching quietly from every door frame.
- Nicole Resseguie

Catholic school backfired. Sin is in!
- Nikki Beland

Savior complex makes for many disappointments.
- Alanna Schubach

Nobody cared, then they did. Why?
- Chuck Klosterman

Some cross-eyed kid, forgotten then found.
- Diana Welch

She said she was negative. Damn.
- Ryan McRae

Born in the desert, still thirsty.
- Georgene Nunn

A sake mom, not soccer mom.
- Shawna Hausman

I asked. They answered. I wrote.
- Sebastian Junger

No future, no past. Not lost.
- Matt Brensilver

Extremely responsible, secretly longed for spontaneity.
- Sabra Jennings

Joined Army. Came out. Got booted.
- Johan Baumeister

Almost a victim of my family
- Chuck Sangster

The psychic said I'd be richer.
- Elizabeth Bernstein

Grumpy old soundman needs love, too.
- Lennie Rosengard

Mom died, Dad screwed us over.
- Lesley Kysely

Painful nerd kid, happy nerd adult.
- Linda Williamson

Write about sex, learn about love.
- Martha Garvey

Rules:

1. Use 6 words
2. Any and all flame/off-topic comments may/will be deleted. Possibly anything other then Six Word Memoirs might be deleted, so comments will best hit thier targets in a PM.

[BTF]Gator · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2008, 05:20:58 PM »

made mistakes but always tried again.

[BTF]Gator · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2008, 05:24:30 PM »

born with self-doubt, struggle; found happiness.

peewee_RotA · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2008, 05:41:28 PM »

I'm too young to do this

{TNP}Dukie · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2008, 05:43:23 PM »

but Gator, shouldn't it be six words that form a coherent thought or sentence? That's the impression I got.

Can't hit the driver for shit.

or

I've wasted my life so far.

either one pretty much sums it up for me.

quadz · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2008, 05:45:20 PM »

eschew obfuscating sesquipedalianisms honorificabilitudinitatibus antidisestablishmentarianism Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu

(sorry could not resist)

vibes · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2008, 05:58:29 PM »

This is something to think about.

It should be one complete sentence.

I love fraggen and shaggen everyday.

And each line has six words.

Including this last line right here.

[BTF]Defiant! · « **Reply #7 on:** February 07, 2008, 06:01:24 PM »

lone mind, loving beauty, family, QUAD_DAMAGE!

[BTF]Sigma · « **Reply #8 on:** February 07, 2008, 06:06:38 PM »

Rather be Happy than be right.

myamagical · « **Reply #9 on:** February 07, 2008, 06:18:55 PM »

Differential equations are a pain. Help.

X'tyfe · « **Reply #10 on:** February 07, 2008, 06:19:47 PM »

no life, no girlfriend, i suck

The Happy Friar · « **Reply #11 on:** February 07, 2008, 06:58:01 PM »

goats, quake, a woman. buff said.

DWxchzrles · « **Reply #12 on:** February 07, 2008, 06:58:24 PM »

great life, great girl friend, wow

quadz · « **Reply #13 on:** February 07, 2008, 07:31:44 PM »

Volume! Clarity! Bass! ...need more bass!!!

[BTF]Sigma · « **Reply #14 on:** February 07, 2008, 07:37:17 PM »

Let's move, this is bat Country

Author Topic: Six Word Memoir (Read 9712 times)

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