REENIE'S REACH
by irene bean

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SOME OF MY FAVORITE BLOGS I'VE POSTED


2008
A Solid Foundation

Cheers

Sold!

Not Trying to be Corny

2007
This Little Light of Mine

We Were Once Young

Veni, Vedi, Vinca

U Tube Has a New Star

Packing a 3-Iron

Getting Personal

Welcome Again

Well... Come on in

Christmas Shopping

There's no Substitute

2006
Dressed for Success

Cancun Can-Can

Holy Guacamole

Life can be Crazy

The New Dog

Hurricane Reenie

He Delivers

No Spilt Milk

Naked Fingers

Blind

Have Ya Heard the One About?

The Great Caper

Push

Barney's P***S

My New Security System

A Short Read

Once again, I've had an Aha moment that most of you probably had years ago. I swear, I'm always a beat behind the band trying to find my baton.

Anyway, a good friend recently gave me a newspaper clipping titled Write Your Memoir in Six Words. Shoot and double shoot! After all these years of pecking out storylines with word count goals in the 70,000 - 100,000 range and here I could've done it all with six measly words. Good heavens, it's a wonder I've lived as long as I have without vital information like this.

The article states that the six-word memoir thing (yes, the word thing is used) started with Hemmingway. I immediately & rhetorically asked myself, "Who am I to upstage Hemmingway with even one more trifling extra word?"

I found an online site that features six-word memoirs. Some examples:

1. Stole wife, lost friends, now happy.
2. Couldn't cope so I wrote songs.
3. Was father, boys died, still sad.
4. I was born some assembly required.
5. Not quite what I was planning.
6. People lie. Keep trying to believe.

Oh, and Hemmingway's six-word memoir when someone asked him for a six-word story - For sale: baby shoes, never worn. I don't get it. Do you think there are Cliff Notes?

This whole six-word thingy got me to thinking how much easier school would have been if assignments had been six-word books. I wonder how Atlas Shrugged would've read, or War and Peace? Any suggestions? How about: When Atlas shrugged, Rhett said, "Damn." Oops, I think I've got my stories confused there. Okay, how about War and Peace? Peace and Peace. A better world. Yeah. That works!

So, what would your six-word memoir say about you? Quite frankly, I would have to write a series with several volumes. But I might start out with: Wiser today than yesterday. There's tomorrow.





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