Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Got Bit - the memoir meme

Stewgad is my very good friend in real life, which means I never read her blog. It turns out that sometimes she reads my blog, so I feel a little bit bad about not reading hers. If she hadn't told me last night when I was over at her house that she'd tagged me for this meme, I'd never have heard about it.

The meme is the "six-word memoir," which as you may know by now is a challenge to write your life's story in six words. This meme is inspired by a recent book that collects people's six-word memoirs, called Not Quite What I Was Planning. I actually like that as my six-word memoir, but I'll try to exercise a little more creativity here.

But I'm still going to cheat. My memoir comes in two volumes, each with its own six-word title.

Volume I is Tried to Be Someone Else Entirely. Volume II is Gave Up, Followed My Heart Instead.

(Feel inspired? Haven't done this yet? Then consider yourself tagged.)

4 comments:

Stewgad said...

Exactly perfect, Innana!!! Man, you rock.

(And so don't feel guilty. When I said I read the blog "sometimes" that means like every 3 or 4 months or so. Sorry!)

Scrivener said...

Those are each way better than the 6 words I came up with for my own, which I haven't even posted yet because I keep hoping I'll come up with something better.

Anonymous said...

I kind of cheated wiht mine - I used an apostrophe to keep it to six word. =P

~ Learning to trust; ride life’s currents.

Anonymous said...

I just found this...

"Well, I thought it was funny."

~A six-word autobiography, NationalPost.com, December 13, 2007
It made me think of this.
Found at

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert