Look at the article “My Six Word Memoir” by Michael Sean Symonds.
(memoir: noun - an account of the author’s personal experiences)
Symonds gives a famous example of a story the author Ernest Hemmingway wrote in only six words. Could you write a story in six words? Symonds challenges readers to summarize their lives in a six-word memoir:
“If YOU had to write the story of your life as it was, is and as you hope it to be, in six words or less what would you say?”
This is the ultimate challenge in summarizing!
For examples, read the comments in the Ode Magazine article page. On another site, you can find examples of six-word stories about love & heartbreak, motherhood, and food. (Be aware that the language in these stories is not edited.)
Examples of six-word Presidential inauguration speeches are in the audio of the NPR story here.
Assignment: write a story using six words only. The grammar does not have to be formal grammar, but it needs to form an understandable message. The story can be about your life, or a fictional story like the one Hemmingway wrote.
Post your stories by following the instructions on the class Wiki here.
