"In this spirit of simple yet profound brevity, the online magazine Smith asked readers to write the story of their own lives in a single sentence. The result is Not Quite What I Was Planning, a collection of six-word memoirs by famous and not-so-famous writers, artists and musicians." The full article can be read at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18768430. I think it's a ploy to get the magazine's name around the world (I've never heard of it), but at least it's something different from the marketing folks.
And like Katie (who tagged me and whose blog I love http://smilelines-k.blogspot.com/), coming up with just one is too much to ask. Here are the few I came up with in just a few minutes.
Star wishing, not a good strategy
Want to live universal truth NOW
Never thought it'd look like this
Warden of own prison, want freedom
Time starved, creatively deprived, physically overfed
From couch, exercise looks like fun
Forget important dates, remember every embarrasment
Mostly happy, never content, want more
Need less things, want more connections
When will I win the lottery
Should have listened to my mom
Everone else's meme sounds much better
Slow to join, then totally committed
Rarely utter first words or last
Explain to me like you're 5
Came this far, where to next
Always reaching for the next thing
I'll go with this one:
How to make a living vacationing
Here are the rules to playing (and my interpretations of them - cause they forgot to explain to me like they were 5):
1. Write your own six word memoir (OK this one is the easiest)
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like (the game just got harder - I don't know how to add a picture from the net and don't have one I took as good illustration - I'll have to spend time getting this to happen)
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere (OK - now I'm officially lost. I can link to Smile Lines, but I have no clue what the "original post" is. Good luck, you are on your own here.)
4. Tag five more blogs with links (I've officially lost this game - Katie tagged all the people I know who have blogs! :-) If I want this to keep going, I'm going to have to search for random blogs to tag to - now it really feels like one of those chain letters.)
5. Remember to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play! (OK, will do, once I find those blogs to link to who won't ban me from the blogosphere because I'm spamming their blog. I'll get right on that! Soon .. really...)
So this will happen in stages and this post will get edited a few times I suppose!
