Green Like Gitgan » 6words http://www.gitgan.com/blog What the heck is a gitgan? Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:27:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 6 word memoir http://www.gitgan.com/blog/2008/04/04/6-word-memoir/ http://www.gitgan.com/blog/2008/04/04/6-word-memoir/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:00:02 +0000 Josh http://www.gitgan.com/blog/?p=208 Ernest Hemingway once bet his friends $10 that he could write a novel in 6 words. He wrote:

For sale: Baby shoes, Never worn.

His friends paid up.

Jeff Kirk recently challenged me to write a memoir in 6 words – no $10 though. I couldn’t settle on one so I did two. Six words each, here they are:

Likes green. No, that\'s too yellow.

Wears Pink Shirts. Still quite masculine

Here are some others I thought of but didn’t quite make the cut. Obviously with 6 words I wasn’t trying to get too deep.

A giant among short-statured men.

He figured it out—well—eventually

Here are a few from wired magazine. Having completed my memoir, per the meme – I must now name 5 others that I’d like to see:

  1. My wife, Kirsten
  2. Keith Haynik
  3. Andy Pull
  4. Gary Underwood
  5. Jeremy Bear
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