this quote from a poem (i forget author and also adore parenthetics and trust thats a "word") seems appropriate for someone who holds a delicious grudge (and well played by YOU 🫡)
"The book of my enemy has been remaindered and I am glad."
I love this piece and your writing! Okay, I’ll play along - “Seemed like a good idea. Wasn’t.” Or “I laughed. I cried. I ate.” I could do this for hours!
My entire career was built on brevity: ad creative. And oh the time it takes to distill the words! The most reduced was always six words or less, to be digestible at 70+ mph on the freeway on a billboard. I will ruminate and be back with my life story. Already thinking of several contenders.
Can't wait to see the life story, Pearl! I have always marveled at the creativity/out-of-the-box thinking required to get exactly the right words into a teeny tiny box.
The ghosts want to be part of the story: that's the whole tension, isn't it. The travelogue version is safe. Car, rain, road, hotel. The moment you let the past in, you've lost control of the narrative and gained something better.
My six words: Knew the rules. Rewrote them anyway.
So fun, Irene -- and I had a pompous pendant of a young English prof who took all the joy out of writing for me with his ding-danged red pen. "Cows are raised. Children are reared," he wrote in the margin of one of my first assignments to tell about our home town. Asshat.
Didn't have a map. Arrived anyway. : )
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Started boring but got much better.
(my life, not the article!)
Love that! And thank you for the clarification :-)
this quote from a poem (i forget author and also adore parenthetics and trust thats a "word") seems appropriate for someone who holds a delicious grudge (and well played by YOU 🫡)
"The book of my enemy has been remaindered and I am glad."
Oh, that is GOOD
its not the Drive By Truckers singin "THE Sands of Iwo Jima" but will do in a pinch 😉
Lifelong people pleaser cured by Parkinson’s.
Oh, SNAP, Eileen, you freaking genius.
🔥
Hey, chronic illness can work wonders 🤩🤩🤩🤩
#truth
Abundant opportunities: seized what I could.
LOVE.
I love this piece and your writing! Okay, I’ll play along - “Seemed like a good idea. Wasn’t.” Or “I laughed. I cried. I ate.” I could do this for hours!
Thank you—and love both of these! I also feel like this one is a good one-size-fits-all: It'll be fun, they said. Nope.
My entire career was built on brevity: ad creative. And oh the time it takes to distill the words! The most reduced was always six words or less, to be digestible at 70+ mph on the freeway on a billboard. I will ruminate and be back with my life story. Already thinking of several contenders.
Can't wait to see the life story, Pearl! I have always marveled at the creativity/out-of-the-box thinking required to get exactly the right words into a teeny tiny box.
The ghosts want to be part of the story: that's the whole tension, isn't it. The travelogue version is safe. Car, rain, road, hotel. The moment you let the past in, you've lost control of the narrative and gained something better.
My six words: Knew the rules. Rewrote them anyway.
SUCH a great interpretation, Lucy. And your six-word memoir is genius. ❤️
That means a lot coming from someone who just made frozen peas literary. 😊
Hahaha, as much as I would love to take credit, that's from Beth Fennely's Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs.
So fun, Irene -- and I had a pompous pendant of a young English prof who took all the joy out of writing for me with his ding-danged red pen. "Cows are raised. Children are reared," he wrote in the margin of one of my first assignments to tell about our home town. Asshat.
Here's my six words:
Forever running late but born early.
Ugh, I can absolutely see how that would take all the joy out of writing. Asshat indeed. And I love your six-word memoir!
Starting again sanguine evolving always stronger
Love that!
Fifty years with my soul mate.
Fifty years is a long time! Love this. ❤️
Btw I am reading Troika (slow reader). Will leave review soon. Loving it so far.
Thank you so much, Lorraine! So glad you're liking it.
Curiosity didn’t kill the cat, thriving.
LOVE that. ❤️
I LOVE this idea!!! We are all so distracted, it's good to distil things sometimes. This is going to be my next dinner party trick. As for me:
Sought friendly connection(s) across the world.
SUCH a better way to break the ice than "So, what do you do?" And I love your six-word memoir—it's exactly how we met!
Early baby, talks lots, never stops
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Forever frozen on ice, won't let it go. ( 8 words; apparently a lifetime of figure 8s are firmly woven into my DNA)
Awww, I love that. And the "Frozen" reference!