The Joy of Six

Given the challenge how would you do it? Sum up your life in 6 words. Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith created what has become a best selling anthology using people's summation of their lives in 6 words. 832 submissions were included in the book Not quite what I was planning; Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. New contributions can be made their website http://www.smithmag.net/. and sixwordmemoir.com.

The contributors to this book attended a book party in Soho, New York and since then have begun to correspond and meet autographing each other's books,finding each other at events. From a simple idea, based on a literary legend that Ernest Hemingway won a bar bet to write a six-word story with "For sale:baby shoes, never worn". A best seller has been launched and people's lives touched.

Love to read your summations. I am still working on mine, as the authors suggest our lives are changing everyday.