Six words..
Interactivity!
I plan to pick up this book, which is an interesting premise. Back in high school, I heard the Hemingway story (challenged to tell a story in six words, he replied, "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn") and thought it a great excersize in creativity, clarity, and brevity.
So. Tell everyone a story. A memoir of yourself, something that happened today. Six words.
ADDENDUM: Thanks to my awesome wife, I now have the book, and I am enjoying it immensely. Remember to go to the publication that is actually collecting them. You could end up in a future book; I found that one of my co-workers is in this book, with "Really, I'm fine. Thanks for asking."
Go post! And like KM said, it's a nice, small exercise to get your creative on.

25 Comments:
Wrong button pushed. "Technology never works."
It must have been the cheese.
Winning would make me feel better.
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Stomach hurts ... No, it's my spleen.
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It's almost as though the auto-generated "removal message" didn't read the post.
Today: "Family looks great, through new camera."
When I was online at 2AM waiting for her to go back to sleep I was going to post this one:
"When will she sleep all night?"
Thanks to this post, I've been counting out various ideas to get them to be 6 words long ;)
being sick sucks, baby sick worse
Black ice. Slipped. Is wrist broken?
Tired now, but how tired later?
what the hell was she thinking?
One I pilfered, but speaks to me:
"I inhale battle.
I exhale victory."
azithromycin, oh how I love thee
but does azithromycin love you back?
good thing we're not counting syllables there, jimmy. ;)
is this a record for comments on this blog?
today's: "lost more pounds! celebrate with cookies."
Record for comments is 22.
Another pilfered one:
"Well, I thought it was funny."
-Steohen Colbert
back in lab, nothing really changes
Ate salty sandwich, now I'm thirsty.
Come on! We can beat 22! :)
Contract says: closing date in March!
Didn't work out; ate like crap.
A moral victory. I'll take it.
I enjoy posting the tiebreaking post.
shamrock shake makes me happy. woo!
Happy, happy, happy, happy birthday, Kim.
(we're all mostly missing the point of the Hemingway six-word story exercise, by the way, but that's OK. Records are fun, even if they're hollow. Just ask Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds!)
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