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Author Topic: Six-Word Memoir Fun!  (Read 18419 times)

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Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« on: March 15, 2010, 03:46:21 PM »

I'm new here but I thought I'd try to start an interesting and hopefully fun thread. We did this in my Fiction Writing class and it was actually amazing to hear the stuff people came up with. The idea is to write a story / memoir in six words; no more, no less. I think it came from a challenge given to Ernest Hemingway to which he wrote the following story:

For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.


Anyway, I came up with these:

I thought we were perfectly happy.

Addicted to video games: very lonely.

I never really liked you anyway.

Still dreaming of meeting Prince Charming.

Fell in love on the internet.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2010, 04:58:19 PM »

Couldn't think of anything to write.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2010, 04:59:18 PM »

In accordance with prophecy--OMFG frogs!

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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2010, 09:41:19 PM »

"Well... she left me my name."
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2010, 03:19:27 AM »

"Honey, this is my daughter."
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2010, 06:28:41 AM »

Stop shaving his balls right now!
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2010, 08:46:51 AM »

Woke up; reminded me of you.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2010, 09:04:41 AM »

I saw her in a porno.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2010, 09:31:38 AM »

I'm not jealous, she's ugly anyway.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2010, 06:34:13 PM »

Without apostrophes, six wouldn't've been enough.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2010, 07:16:59 PM »

Couldn't think of anything to write.

I remembered there was a thread like this over at that place I used to frequent, so I went spelunking and was pleasantly reminded that you started it. Except it was 4, not 6 words.

An adaptation of my contribution:

Regarding hyphenated words: are they as-one-counted?
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2010, 05:54:23 PM »

Loved, lost, loved again- fuck it.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2010, 09:08:14 PM »

Ah-ha-ha. Yeah, right. Famous last words.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2010, 12:38:06 PM »

Back in class, miss spring break.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2010, 04:59:27 PM »

Back in class, miss spring break.

Ditto! I hate being back here.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2010, 08:54:03 AM »

Goodbye old friend; you were loved.

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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2010, 09:48:49 AM »

Story: six words. Picture: a thousand.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2010, 10:42:37 AM »

well that just plain totally sucks
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2010, 09:35:28 AM »

Back in life; miss school days.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2010, 11:37:20 AM »

Exchange 2007 Public Folder permissions FAIL.
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« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2010, 02:06:58 PM »

Exchange 2007, the devil's new tool.
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« Reply #21 on: March 25, 2010, 04:29:35 PM »

Exchange 2007, the devil's new tool.

The devil's new tool is flaccid.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #22 on: March 26, 2010, 07:45:47 PM »

Liking how this thread is doing.
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2010, 05:39:22 AM »

[insert a six-word-long witticism here, please]
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Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2010, 10:42:27 AM »

make a newbie thread or die.
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