I saw this meme at The Sleepy Reader today and loved it, largely because I'd just recently read about this Hemingway anecdote when we were studying him in American Lit. Here is the meme, which originated here at Bookbabie:
As I read yet another book review of a memoir this weekend, my husband told me that I should write one. I said that my story would be much too short and rather boring so when I ran across the following book I decided it was just my speed. A six word memoir! Written by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, Not Quite What I was Expecting: Six Word Memoirs by Famous and Obscure is a compilation based on the story that Hemingway once bet ten dollars that he could sum up his life in six words. His words were- For Sale: baby shoes, never worn. There’s a video on Amazon with examples from the book, it sounds like a fun read! I’d like to start a six word memoir meme and here are the rules:
1. Write your own six word memoir
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere
4 .Tag five more blogs with links
5. And don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!
And so, here is mine. Let me just say, this is really hard to do, especially if you start looking at what other people have done. How to create a memoir in just six words? It is terribly daunting. But after many tries, I've come up what pretty much sums it up:
Delighting in an extraordinarily lovely life.
Comments
Thursday, February 28, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
Great positive memoir and photo, thanks for playing!
bookbabie
Thursday, February 28, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by debbiecorley
OOOH! I love it! I have to ponder this awhile and get back to ya!
Saturday, March 1, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by lcourtneymom
Ohhh. I like this. I'm going to think on it for a while.
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
A challenge... just what I need. I'll begin working on it tonight, but I know I will need to sleep on a few nights and let the idea stew inside my head :-) I'll be putting it in my <a href="http://shawna-thoughts.blogspot.com/">This Is Me</a> blog.
Shawna
Thursday, March 6, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
A challenge... just what I need. I'll begin working on it tonight, but I know I will need to sleep on a few nights and let the idea stew inside my head :-) I'll be putting it in my This Is Me blog.
http://shawna-thoughts.blogspot.com/
Shawna
