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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

Can you describe your life in six words?

Your whole life, what’s gone down before, the good, the bad and the boring, your future hopes and dreams all wrapped up in six little words. Go on. Give it a go. I dare you.

Stumped? There are 800 six-word memoirs in this little book. Some are more like epitaphs and I don’t know about you but I don’t want to think of my own epitaph, thanks very much. It inspired me to ask what others might write for their own.

I asked some people on the bus, but they weren’t much help and mostly looked at me as if I were a bit dippy, however, you, gentle reader, you have time to come up with your own, totally oblivious to the gaze of passing strangers.

Here are a few examples …

• Hope my obituary spells “debonair” correctly
• Took different road, never got there
• Wasn’t born a redhead; fixed that

Can you condense your own life into six words? If you can, let me know. The best one gets 500 EC points or 300 BE credits.

Tags: books, memoir

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