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not quite what I was planning.

by Allison on February 11, 2008 in Home, home_books · 2 comments

I was listening to N.P.R. the other day in the car with my husband when I heard this amazing segment called Six-Word Memoirs. It’s a brilliant storytelling idea from Smith Magazine {an online storytelling community} spurred by the brief six-word story once penned by Ernest Hemingway:

“For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Is it possible to write your own memoir in six words? You’d be surprised at how much you can learn about a person based from such a small handful of words. Smith magazine had so many entries they compiled a book called: Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure.


not quite what i was planning book

My husband and I tried to come up with what our six word memoirs would be. I have a long way to go still, {I’m planning on living to 90} but so far this is what mine would be:

got sick, loved young, died happy.

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Article by Allison Czarnecki

I'm Allison, founder and editor of Petit Elefant. I run the gamut from granola to glamour and love everything in between. I think the beach is always a good idea, as is Diet Dr. Pepper; on ice. Sometimes I put out the fires and sometimes I start them. Sometimes I really do have it all together. Sometimes my children say otherwise. We just like to keep it real around here.

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{ 2 comments }

1 KJ February 11, 2008 at 9:13 pm

this is definitely fascinating…

2 the HeartTongues April 7, 2008 at 12:06 am

don’t remember seeing this before…quite interesting…i’ll have to think about what mine would be…

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