Janet Leigh reading.
This six-word memoir fad is really humming. I have a library book in my hand with hundreds of them on the subject of love and heartbreak.
These six-word dittys tend to be pithy, witty or humorous. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But I don't get the point. I can see it more for six-word stories-a clever way to state the subject. But to sum up yourself in six-words reduces you.
Perhaps one word to define us is the ultimate test.
Online.
What's your one word--or six if you like.
Sleepy. (Or, as word rec would have it, "antinept." I haven't nept nearly enough of late, and I am feeling the opposite of ept as a result.)
ReplyDeletea six word memoir sounds very weird to me. I could just see listing emotions maybe.
ReplyDeleteHis shoes under bed gather dust.
ReplyDeleteThat's mine but they tend to be like that-of course, the topic on this volume was love and heartbreak.
Sum myself up in a single word? Patti, you do post the most daunting challenges. For me, the appropriate word might be WAITING.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Jeff
1 word: Interloper
ReplyDelete6 word:
Dad died
Mom zombiefied
Family forever
I wrote one about Hemingway some time ago: He was born, wrote and died.
ReplyDeleteSix words...How could I have done better>?
ReplyDeleteEric-plain creepy. Jeff-that's a good word for all of us. Todd, I know you can outwit me.
ReplyDeletePerhaps mine should be How might I have typed better? Hemingway's would be How could I have been Manlier? (I mistyped that one as Mailer...or, Norman asks, Did I? I reply to Mailer, I did, and to *koff* Papa, Don't whine so much.)
ReplyDeleteToo sleepy to outwit anyone, Patti.
"Life begins awkwardly but gets better."
ReplyDeleteWell, it may not be a memoir but it is six words.
In any event, for whatever it is worth, my blog has been revived, so please keep in touch at BOOKED FOR MURDER
Lovely RT and very apt. I will look on. Hope you are feeling better.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like a variation on haiku. Love, laughter, working, music, reading, eating. That about sums me up. Notice, unlike Phil, I don't do yard work or gardening.
ReplyDeleteSums me up, too. But do you cook?
ReplyDeleteI am a very good cook and love food...maybe a little too much.
ReplyDeleteAh, as do we.
ReplyDeleteAnd so, along those lines how's this:
ReplyDeleteLoves food, alas, but not mirrors.
(though I hope this isn't the entire sum of me!)
Thanks for the challenge
I think that is the sum of me.
ReplyDeleteLife - taken for granted until it's at risk
ReplyDeleteOops - eight words. Sorry.
6
ReplyDeleteHe's no romantic bone left unbroken.
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beholden
Now I see all these inspiring examples, I remember a real one in five words from a Danish tombstone - a farmer´s wife, I imagine: "She did what she could."
ReplyDeleteDorte-Tombstones have some great ones on them-although usually sad.
ReplyDeleteChuck-I hope a few months from now you write something entirely different.
WM-Okay, you poets have the edge with this for sure.
Todd-Maybe we should just speak in six-word sound bites from now on.
Expletive.
ReplyDeleteJust expletive or should I guess which one?
ReplyDeletejester born, befriends, prevails. roll credits.
ReplyDeleteThat pretty much sums it up if you sub joker for jester.
ReplyDeleteI meant in my case, Kieran, not yours.
ReplyDelete"Loved all; in love with some."
ReplyDeleteThis would work much better for a famous person who was well known for something very specific.
For instance, I'll bet you can guess who this is:
"Child sensation, white glove, plastic body"
Sadly, yes.
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