Find out what the six-word memoir is all about, and then see if you can tell your story in just half a dozen words. Skip to main content. A Trusted Friend in a Complicated World.

This six-word memoir from Becki Lee, which was published in It All Changed in an Instant, has a fun finale: “Found on Craigslist: table, apartment, fiance.” How charming!

Write your six-word memoir. There's a new book coming out that caught our attention, called Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs By Famous and Obscure Writers.It's from the editors of ...

The Early Show co-anchors all tried their hand at their own six-word memoirs. Why not give it a go yourself? Enter your six words in the comments section below for fellow CBSNews.com readers to see!

The Six-Word Memoir project has been going for seven years and continues to ask us one simple question: If you had to sum up your life in six words, what would you say?. Many notable folks have ...

Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak is Smith magazine's second collection of very, very brief life stories. In 2008, the magazine curated Not Quite What I Was Planning, ...

Mr. Smith is the creator of Six Word Memoirs. Since 2006, I’ve been challenging people to describe their lives in six words, a form I call the six-word memoir — a personal twist on the ...

If you had to sum up your life in six words, what would you say? "Shy Jersey kid, overcompensating ever since." --Ariel Kaminer "Couldn't cope so I wrote songs." --Aimee Mann "Was father. Boys died.

Six-word memoirs are on YouTube too. People video their own six-word sentence. Some keep count on their fingers. The regular ones keep coming too. “SMITH” magazine features 10 more daily.

Six-Word Memoir is the brainchild of Larry Smith, a veteran magazine journalist who, in 2006, was struck by the fact that — despite having spent a lot of time with his grandfather, Morris Smith ...