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- Six Word Memoir Examples For Students Free
- Six Word Memoir Examples
- Six Word Memoir Examples For Students
Six Word Memoirs Tony Nominations Tony Winners Six Words Theatre Names Writing Theatres Being A Writer 2013 Tony winner Leon Rothenberg's #sixwords nomination story Theatre Geek Broadway Theatre Musical Theatre Say I Love You Give It To Me Six Word Memoirs Tony. Six-Word Memoirs: Life Stories Distilled Can you pare the story of your life into just six words?Not Quite What I Was Planning is a collection of six-word memoirs by famous and not-so-famous.
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“The constraint fuels rather than limits our creativity.”
By Maria Popova
In 2006, Larry Smith presented a challenge to his community at SMITH Magazine: How would you tell your life’s story if you could only use six words? The question, inspired by the legend that Hemingway was once challenged to write an entire novel in just six words, spurred a flurry of responses — funny, heartbreaking, moving, somewhere between PostSecret and Félix Fénéon’s three-word reports. The small experiment soon became a global phenomenon, producing a series of books and inspiring millions of people to contemplate the deepest complexities of existence through the simplicity of short-form minimalism. The latest addition to the series, Things Don’t Have To Be Complicated: Illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by Students Making Sense of the World, comes from TEDBooks and collects dozens of visual six-word autobiographies from students between the ages of 8 and 35.
In the introduction, Smith speaks to the liberating quality of constraints:
Six Word Memoir Examples For Students Free
As an autobiographical challenge, the six-word limitation forces us to pinpoint who we are and what matters most — at least in the moment. The constraint fuels rather than limits our creativity.
The micro-memoirs are divided into four sections — grade school, high school, college, and graduate school — and touch, with equal parts wit and disarming candor, on everything from teenagers’ internal clocks to the escapism of Alice in Wonderland.
Six Word Memoir Examples
Six Word Memoir Examples For Students
Things Don’t Have To Be Complicated comes on the heels of TED’s The Science of Optimism: Why We’re Hard-Wired for Hope and offers an inadvertent yin to its yang.