Not Quite What I Was Planning : Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

from kidzdoc

The editors of SMITH Magazine, an online "vibrant community of storytellers", invited its readers to contribute six-word memoirs, and roughly a thousand were selected for this book. Some authors are famous, most are not. Many of the memoirs are pedestrian ("Will draw for food and coffee"), but a ...

from pivic

Some of the six-word memoirs are wonderful. Some are just fodder. All in all, though, brilliant bits that put Twitter to shame. Some faves: Woman with man's name— thanks, parents! —Curtis Sittenfeld Became my mother. Please shoot me. —Cynthia Kaplan Hope my obituary spells “debonair” correctly. —...

from kidzdoc

The editors of SMITH Magazine, an online "vibrant community of storytellers", invited its readers to contribute six-word memoirs, and roughly a thousand were selected for this book. Some authors are famous, most are not. Many of the memoirs are pedestrian ("Will draw for food and coffee"), but a ...

from knittingfreak

I just read Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure and the companion volume, Six Word Memoirs of Love & Heartbreak by Writers Famous & Obscure. I know the first book made the rounds when it was first published, but I just now got around to it. I read it in one...

from debnance

Here are some of my favorites:"I was born with some assembly required.""I live the perfect imperfect life.""You are all in my imagination.""Take a left turn, then fly.""Cursed with cancer. Blessed with friends.""I wouldn't change it a bit.""Can't read all the time. Bummer.""Put whole self in, sho...