six word memoir
Today summer classes began. I had my first one, Creative Writing.
My professor is pretty cool, no text for the course, participation is the biggest chunk of the grade, and she’s young and funny.
She made us write a ‘6-word memoir’ which is modeled after something published in the New York Times about a year ago. She handed out a sheet with serveral of these submissions by famous people and my favorites were:
- Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention — Arianna Huffington
- Well, I thought it was funny — Stephen Colbert
- Eight thousand orgasms, only one baby — Neal Pollack
- I write because I can’t sleep — Ben Mezrich
- Nobody cared, then they did. Why? –Chuck Klosterman
After reading and discussing these, she asked us to write our own six word memoirs. I thought this was going to be a lot harder than I thought, but mine just kinda popped into my head in a matter of seconds. I just rephrased it to be 6 words and the result is: Only You Can Tell Yourself ‘No‘.
&& why is this my six word memoir? I’ll post it all tomorrow, I should be going to sleep now, I have class at 8am tomorrow! :X
that sounds interesting. i like yours.
“Eight thousand orgasms, only one baby” — Neal Pollack
that one reminds me of french film, amelie.