Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser from Boingboing had this great concept of the 6-word memoir. There are even great YouTube videos about it.
I absolutely loved the idea! Unfortunately, unless you were Maya Angelou, you should probably just stick to one memoir… even if your memoir were only a 6-word memoir. For the record, mine is Everything Done Will Mean More Later.
However, there’s nothing wrong with writing lots of 6-word biographies, so I’m dedicating this post to the concept. That means I will add other 6-word biographies as I think of them, to this same post, mostly of famous people so others can relate, but also the occasional specific person in my life for an inside joke. Real biography links courtesy of Wikipedia.
If you have any 6-word biographies to share, please add them to the comments. Thank you.
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Six Word Memoir
Not enough channels to share everything!
– Ted Turner
WTF??? Ask in Facebook survey. LMFAO!!!
– A certain 16 year old distant relative I know
Superman. On screen and off screen.
– Christopher Reeve
My Way, with other people’s songs.
– Frank Sinatra
My Way. My Songs. My Show.
– Paul Anka
Fame became infamy between my legs.
– Bill Buckner
Yes we can. Yes we will!
– Barack Obama
Born to be Vice-president, not historian.
– Joe Biden
Repeat Om mani padme hum forever…
– Any Dalai Lama
Good heart, bad lungs, no wardrobe.
– Darth Vader
Six words? I want six memoirs!
– Maya Angelou
Great in many ways, relativity speaking.
– Albert Einstein
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