Your story, in six words
Are you familiar with the Six Word Story?
“A six-word story is an entire story told in six words. It is a short narrative that can have all of the emotional themes of longer stories—from funny to dramatic, sad to scary. It can be poetic or straightforward.”
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. Others gave their own spin into the six-word novel - a personal twist to describe a life in exactly six words, sometimes called these Six-Word Memoirs.
https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/
“While these quick stories don’t have the classic beginning, middle, and end of a traditional storyline, they have a subject and verb that give the reader a sense of what’s happened and a bit of conflict.”
https://lib.pstcc.edu/sixwordstory#:~:text=The%20key%20to%20writing%20your,to%20tell%20a%20whole%20story.&text=In%20just%20six%20little%20words,be%20in%20what's%20left%20unsaid.
6 Word Story Examples
http://www.sixwordstories.net/
Here are a few of my favorites, including living through disease treatment:
Lost myself in my own labyrinth
Taking control of my own boat
Discover manage weep repeat heal survive
Disbelief anxiety fortitude bravery live on
Multitudes stand together at bell ringing
What came of it was life
Do you have a Six Word Story to share?
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I need nine words-
I get knocked down, but I get up again
(song lyric)
That's 15 words.
@itchyd
Yes...but who's counting??? 🤣
TobyMac?
"Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba, should be
on YouTube, part of the chorus, catchy tune- works great to sing to yourself when you do get knocked down and need courage to get back up again and again
I always have to stop at twenty.
I always thought the guy singing was saying, "I've got no tar..."
Thought maybe he was a public works employee.
Obie Wan?
Long shots can win the game
@itchyd
You were getting close, my friend. So, it's a good thing that @centre stopped at 15! Whew...that was a close call.