Six words is plenty. Go Owls!
October 13th, 2007 by Helen Herbst in NewsAJC book reviewer Phil Kloer has challenged readers of AJC.com’s book blog to a six-word-memoir contest.
The contest was inspired by the upcoming book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, a collection of six-word memoirs compiled by SMITH magazine’s Larry Smith. It comes out in 2008.
Here are the contest rules. Are you ready? Entries have to be six words and must be submitted by midnight on Oct. 15th.
I thought I would give a nod to my favorite entries. Because of the injustice of the societal machine (or a mere violation of the rules), these probably won’t win.
By He speaks
October 11, 2007 12:12 PM
Ghetto life ain’t all bad yall.By scribe
October 11, 2007 9:29 AM
Now What?By Ronald Stroman
October 11, 2007 7:23 PM
Miss Venereal,isn’t a good catch.By claude
October 11, 2007 12:15 PM
Oh MY! What a night!By Sarrah Ellen
October 11, 2007 9:02 AM
Bein’ ruint frees you up some.By monteal
October 11, 2007 8:32 AM
everyday striving to keep Jesus #1By Jeff
October 11, 2007 2:50 PM
Freedom. Non-Interventionism. Constitution. Ron Paul 2008By finally
October 11, 2007 2:52 PM
Chilly or hot, still fighting snot.By CITYGAL
October 11, 2007 1:20 PM
Dadgummit!! LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE!!!By Carlos
October 11, 2007 2:24 PM
Why? Because.
And my personal favorite…
By Prootwadl
October 11, 2007 1:26 PM
Burma Shave.
As far as the non-six-word ones go, I can’t tell if the posters can’t count, can’t read directions or if they’re just being ironic.
Anyway, they’re all great. Kloer’s post has apparently garnered the most comments of any AJC blog ever in the history of everything. I’d love to include them all, but I can’t, so instead I’m gonna post that link one more time for y’all.
Here’s my challenge to you, Dear Reader.
Feel free to write your own six-word memoir (one can hardly help it. Mine: Amazon recommends an Alex Trebek biography), but I want you to write a six-letter memoir.
There’s no deadline. There’s no prize. Just six letters (not characters).
To help get the inspiration flowing, here’s mine: Oh yeah.
There you go. I want to hear about your lives, and if nobody responds to this, I wasn’t serious anyway.
Send to a friend:
October 13th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Mo’ jazz.
This is actually really hard.
October 14th, 2007 at 1:56 am
My book!
October 14th, 2007 at 10:41 am
just in.
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I’m dirt.
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in dust.
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October 14th, 2007 at 10:44 am
just in case you missed it, that’s 6 words, AND, three 6-letter memoirs…… :-)
October 14th, 2007 at 10:46 am
oops. dang. that should have been:
just in.
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I’m dust.
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in dirt.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
“Ssssss”
for hh but kloer got the words underlying the six letter acronym:
first chapter
“Shoes show secrets seldom seen simultaneously”
the end
for instance:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgiaimproper
and while i’m here, i’m gonna bitch a little, next to CL, AJC has the slowest posting blog in the georgia blog unverse… and the apostrophe should knock Thomas out of consideration…this is madness… ssssss
October 15th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Born. Still living. Not dead yet.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:59 am
I tried.
October 16th, 2007 at 11:38 am
ssssss, i’m goin through womenopause…
November 29th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Six words is almost too short…
November 29th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Haterz
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Free VD.
VD Free.