6 or 7 or 17-Word Memoir

You may have heard of the 6-Word Memoir--from the book bearing the same name, the YouTube marketing video, the Page-A-Day calendar, the t-shirts.

Ernest Hemingway, known for his terse style, mastered the art:  "For sale:  Baby shoes, never worn."

Powerful.  Leaves us wondering, doesn't it?  

Writing a 6-word memoir serves as an effective exercise in the budding writer's attempts to practice the "economy of language," i.e. the discipline of distilling language to the pure essence of meaning, through the elimination of unnecessary modifiers, prepositional phrases, determiners in giving voice to  our intention.  

I always like to start my Writer's Workshops with this exercise.  

Now I'm going to give you a tad more freedom to choose from 6, 7, or 17-words in writing your Memoir describing the phase of life in which you find yourself.

       "Sandwich generation?  Tired of being ham."

Or you can narrow your focus by viewing your life through the lens of this day, the last day of September 2012.

Or make it thematic--write about Sunday dinners or siblings or leaves, while trying to throw in a twist, like Hemingway's.  Leave the reader wondering.  

"Grandma passed.  Sunday dinner now MacDonalds."  

Now it's your turn, and don't forget...I would love to see your response.  :)