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Six Word Stories

They are sometimes written as six word memoirs...

From Ernest Hemingway to You!

A writing challenge for National Days On Writing

for Morehead State University and Eastern Kentucky

Writers are still creating six word stories today. Visit

http://www.sixwordstories.net/ to see six word stories from around the world.

And sometimes they follow a theme or inspiration such as a photo: http://6wordspluspostage.wordpress.com/

Ernest Hemingway

In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway’s colleagues bet him

that he couldn’t write a complete story in just six words.

He wrote: For sale: baby shoes, never used.

They paid up. Hemingway is said to have considered it his best work.

Share Your Six Word Story

In Person or On the web

Some more examples

Stop by the Camden-Carroll Library on the campus of Morehead State University or visit Coffeetree Books on Main Street in Morehead to add your six word story to our graffiti walls

Use the #WEKY hashtag to post on Twitter and Google+

or post it on our National Days On Writing at Morehead State University and throughout Eastern Kentucky Facebook page

Lots of people share six word stories on Twitter using the #6words hashtag: http://bit.ly/16ZOkxf

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