On Talking About Yourself

I was thinking about how we describe ourselves, how we present who we are to the world (all this in relation to my first blog entry), and I came about a very interesting website, Smith Magazine (http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/), where one has to tell his/her own story in six words. How hard can that be!? Well, very much so! I spent the last hour trying to summarise myself in six words, and so far I have only achieved a blank page and two episodes of Scrubs season 4 watched…

I’ve been reading some of the entries that people have written and they are ace! ‘Catholic, gave it up for Lent’, ‘My dog worshipped me. ‘Twas enough’ and ’Look Mom: I’ve finally written something’ are some of the best I’ve read… I can see this being my new addiction… peeping into other people’s six words lives! And I thought facebook was voyeuristic enough…

So will keep trying to find a six word story for myself, but in the meantime… I think its time for a third Scrubs episode…

7 Responses to “On Talking About Yourself”

  1. theolive theolive says:

    Wow, now that’s an exercise I think I’m perfect for! Let’s see… “Green, round and red pepper stuffed”, Ha! in 6 words! Thank you, thank you, big applause for theolive, thank you!

  2. Adrian lobeznoUK says:

    I would go for: ‘Round stuffed green olive. It talks!’.

  3. theolive theolive says:

    How about “Round stuffed green and talking? theolive!” Yeah, I write my name “theolive” all together :D

  4. theolive theolive says:

    Or better still “the green round stuffed talking olive” :-D Or… ok, I’ll stop now…

  5. Adrian lobeznoUK says:

    then again, it sounds like an ad! It should be more a description… get the ‘THE’ out of the sentence…

  6. A.Nurboe A.Nurboe says:

    may i just say… you two… wow… :)

  7. ZoltarStark ZoltarStark says:

    Hi, I tried to enter a link to a blog with 50 six-word-stories but the comment gets rejected. Probably got classified as spam…

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