Thursday, 7 February 2008
Six Word Story
Article on the Radio the other day. Hemmingway (sp?) once claimed during a conversation in a bar that you could write a whole story in six words. To prove it, he subsequently wrote:
For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
On that premise, some American publisher of memoires has apparently set a competition for people to submit their own life stories in six words. I reckon that would make interesting reading. Which led me to wonder what would be my own? Useful thing to have I think. Cheap enough to print on your gravestone....
For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
On that premise, some American publisher of memoires has apparently set a competition for people to submit their own life stories in six words. I reckon that would make interesting reading. Which led me to wonder what would be my own? Useful thing to have I think. Cheap enough to print on your gravestone....
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