Six word memoir

A Six-Word Memoir is a storytelling tool. It is a focused way of telling a story in six words. According to literary legend the novelist Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a short story in only six words. Hemingway’s six word story read: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”The U.S. based online storytelling Smith Magazine took this idea and asked its readers to tell their life story in just six-words....


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