Or alternatively: My constant cheeriness drives people nuts. Two terrible examples of a six-word memoir.
I don’t know if you know Smith Magazine? I may have mentioned them before. They’re a class act, (published by TED Books, a division of the TED Conference), and they invented the six-word memoir, and to date they’ve published seven volumes of them. It’s not as easy as you might think to come up with a really good six word memoir, but you can see some of the winning ones here.
Now they’ve raised the bar slightly, or maybe quite a bit, depending on how talented you are. For their next book, they’re looking for illustrations to go with the memoir, and they have to be done by the author, and – the author has to be a student – of any age. The book will be entitled: Things Don’t Have to be Complicated: The Art of Six-Word Memoirs by Students of the World.
Here are some of the current entries. Try not to get discouraged…they’re good.
You can read the submission guidelines here, and they’re taking submissions through October 15th.
Surely you can do better than I did here?