Linden Mueller of Linden’s Pensieve tagged me for this some time ago, but I didn’t get to it until now because of all the backlog of work I had due to the Macbook hard drive debacle. Linden notes,

This idea has been around for quite a long time. In fact, its most famous version is from Hemingway, who wrote not a six-word memoir, but a six-word novel:

    For sale: baby shoes, never used.

This most recent iteration was sparked by SMITH Magazine's book called Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure. NPR even has an enjoyable slide-show to accompany the six-word memoirs they have collected.

Now that all files that can be restored are restored, here is my life, handily summed up in six words:

Easily distracted, she writes to live.

I’m going to tag some of the creative-writing oriented GTAs here at Missouri State for this meme. Heads up to Ben Pfeiffer of Red Ink Journal and Write Well, Lee Busby of English 603 Practicum, Chaz Miller of Syrup of Wahoo, Niki Cox of One Small Voice, Jen Edwards of fic-jen writer, Adam Mills of The Typist, and Kevin Leubbering of The Pounding Thumper.