The Six-Word Memoir Project

According to legend, Hemingway has challenged to write stories in six words. What's his answer? In November 2006, SMITH magazine rekindled the story by asking readers their own 6-letter memoirs. They sent a short life story at once in bittersweet ("Curse cancer, get blessing from friends") and sharp ("I still drink 2 cups of coffee") (from "business school") It was. "呸! Pop music? Banzai")) and funny ("I like big buttocks, I can not lie")

Since then, the six-character memoirs project has become a global phenomenon and best seller series. There are six letter memoirs from hundreds of NPR media to New Yorkers, including thousands of blogs that can be found with 1 million honest tea caps by the summer of 2010.

Thousands of people shared their own short stories with smithmag.net, classroom, church, and "sniper" consisting of six words all over the world. The six-letter memoirism reflects the best story of SMITH magazine: populism, participatory type, moving and addictive. From early dates to living room games, meetings and staff retreats, the six-letter memoirs become a powerful tool to stimulate conversation, centering on big ideas, and individuals become an easy way to eliminate deadlocks It was.

As expected to explode in Weibo, SMITH initially started a six-character memoir in November 2006. As a simple online challenge, please ask:

In collaboration with Twitter (at the company's first external project), SMITH fans are sent a 6-character story every day. Within a few weeks, the blogosphere shouted at the challenge. The rest is history

NPR's 12-minute "National Talk" section has become NPR.org's most popular e-mail for three consecutive weeks

There are 950 credit contributors, "I do not know the plan" is probably the most "crowdsourcing" book in the history of publication. Each copywriter received a copy of the book and a promotion kit. Hundreds of people have spread the word

In May 2008, Harper Perennial signed five books with Smith. It includes a six-character memoir of love and broken heart, a six-character memoir for teenagers (September 2009), and the latest one. All of these change instantaneously: a more famous six-character memoir on writer's name and ambiguity (January 2010)

Everyone is talking about six words. What are you? I hope that you will be part of SMITH Magazine's six-character memoirs project and that their contributions will be even better.

Speaking of six letter write restrictions, this is an interesting project based on the same thing. The book "Not Not What I I Planning" is a collection of memoirs written in six words by celebrities and less-known writers. It is difficult to summarize life with just six words, but imagine writing a book on life. Suddenly six words would not seem so difficult. Phil Hansen's story is simply exciting. As a student of art, Phil depends on the style of the picture of a particular point he developed. Creating and hurting art like this means that you can not do it, but it may be upsetting to understand. Three years after leaving the art world completely, Phil came back and started to use constraints for him.

Since then, the six-character memoirs project has become a global phenomenon and best seller series. There are six letter memoirs from hundreds of NPR media to New Yorkers, including thousands of blogs that can be found with 1 million honest tea caps by the summer of 2010. Thousands of people have shared smithmag.net, classroom, church, and six of the short stories of their own in the "sniper", which consists of the words in the world. The six-letter memoirism reflects the best story of SMITH magazine: populism, participatory type, moving and addictive. From early dates to living room games, meetings and staff retreats, the six-letter memoirs become a powerful tool to stimulate conversation, centering on big ideas, and individuals become an easy way to eliminate deadlocks It was.