SMITH magazine does a contest called "Six Word Memoirs," in which you sum up your life pithily in six words only. Well, maybe pithily. I guess you're also supposed to assume that your life is over, otherwise, how is it a complete memoir?
Here's the link to this year's winners.I'm guessing they're a hipster mag. Not really sure, as I've never read anything in it. Judging entirely superficially, though, I'd say that most stories in it are about how great it is to be Green, and how meeting someone really poor made you feel bad about your $100 shoes. Maybe I'll read something from there over the next week, just to see if I'm giving out bad info with no substantiation whatsoever.
Anyway, I saw the Six Word thing on
slashdot, of all places, and of course, it made me try to think of mine.
Here it is:
"Want more of nothing but time."
I'd put it into their submission form, but I'm too busy burning oil and wishing destruction on my enemies today, and I think participating might give me a rash.
Wired magazine did the same thing but with
general stories. I'm trying to think of a decent on of those.