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Mr. Rayburn alerted me to a new book and its accompanying website called, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. The website is interactive. Readers are invited to submit their own six-word memoirs, which will be considered for the next edition of the book. Readers can also subscribe to RSS feeds of all the submissions or just the featured submissions. There's even a Six-Word Memoir Facebook Group.

The only part I don't quite get is that you can tag your memoirs. Seems to me that tagging allows writers to effectively lengthen their mini-memoirs, or at least to provide a kind of code for memoirs that would otherwise remain cryptic (or at least not stand on their own). As a librarian, I'm all in favor of tags. But the English major/creative writing geek in me thinks that in this case it kind of defeats the purpose. Regardless, I think this is an inspired move on the part of the folks at Smith Magazine. Anybody want to try out their submissions here first?