There's a new book out titled, "Not Quite What I Was Planning - Six-Word Memoirs by Famous and Obscure Writers." It's published by Harper Perennial.
Here's the review from today's Sunday Telegraph:
If you had to sum up your whole life in six words, how would you do it? The editors of online magazine, Smith, came up with a competition after hearing that Hemingway once wrote a novel in six words: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Thousands of entries followed, and the results here are by turns hilarious, perplexing, poignant, and straight-out strange.
They encompass tones of bitterness ("After Harvard, had baby with crackhead"), anger ("Mom died, Dad screwed us over"), joy ("She kissed me and said yes!") and poignancy ("Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends").
My challenge to you, is for you to write your own six-word memoir and post it here.
To make a start, here's mine:
Blissfully meditative incarnate pagan gay artist.
