This is my assignment for American Culture class but i found out it is very interesting so i upload here to share with everyone.

What is your Six – Word Memoir??

Can you tell your life story in exactly six words??? This idea comes from very good novelist, Hemingway legend, once he was asked to write a full story in six words in a bar bet. And he responded “For sale: baby shoes, never worn”

In this spirit, for the past several years, two editor – Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith – from the storytelling site Smith Magazine invited writers “famous and obscure” to distill their own stories into exactly six- words.

It is over three years since they put their project up at www.smithmag.net. And now it has been up to 250,000 six-word memoirs on the site. Every day, every morning and they are definitely different.

The six – word memoir challenge is also a chance to define people as they want to see. Whatever, those tiny memoirs are sometimes sad, sometimes fun but always concise and memorable. It is a part of one’s real life.

Though those six-word memoirs come from famous people and obscure people but most of them are related to life experience: love, heartbreak, life and death, the moment of change, the moment of contrast, career, family…..

You can find all tackle life, love, work and everything in six words in the latest edition” It All Change In An Instant: More Six – Word Memoirs From Writers Famous and Obscure”

This book is full collection of six – word memoirs of well – known names:

Activist Gloria Steinem: Life is one big editorial meeting

Author Frank McCourt: The miserable childhood leads to royalties

To many normal people:

Four pregnancies, three miscarriages, baby girl.
Cathy

Too small, yet feel so big.
Marjorie

I believe yesterdays, tomorrow is today.
John

About marriage and heartbreak:

Found on Craigslist: table, apartment, fiancé.
Becki Lee

Met wife at her bachelorette party.
Eddie Matz

Bachelor party, Youtube video, marriage cancelled.
Rachel

Love on a plane, two kids
Karen

Flowers fade, love should last longer.
Haron

Or some obscure authors wrote about changing her sex and loneliness:

Change sexes, same monkey, different barrel

Loneliness – one egg in the pan.

What’s your six – word memoir, if you already have your life story in six words to tell, pick up the phone and call: 800 – 989 – 8255 or email to talk@npr.org. Your six – word memoir may be added to the next edition.

Source: www.npr.org


And my six – word memoir: Trial, error, get over, move on.

My friend: born, schools, grown-up, see people die.