"Brevity: a good thing in writing"
So opens Lizzie Widdicombe's recent essay.
She reports - click here - a phenomenon.
"Say it all in six words."
You can do this, you know.
Your autobiography, your work, a biography.
A zip06 challenge for hyperlocal acclaim.

The model: new book she reports.
It's The Talk of the Town.
"Not Quite What I Was Planning."

Three suggested categories for your contributions.
Share your life in six words.
Tell another's life in six words.
Also tell us who it is.
Describe your work in six words.
Indicate your category: autobiography, biography, work.
Enter as often as you wish.

To The Day newsroom goes thanks.
Lisa McGinley if to be exact.
From her did I get idea.
Perhaps newsroom will join the fun.
Who knows what they might contribute.

Biography: Eliot Spitzer 
Was very righteous, now "deeply sorry".

Biography: Dawn Wells
Once Mary Ann, now smokes weed.

Bits in; Bits out; Interactive media.

Powerful writing: inspires, heals, promotes action.

Autobiography

 Progression: child, spouse, parent, soul rediscovery

                    Son
                /           \
           Me           Brother
           |                    |
     Grampa           Husband
               \            /
                 Father

Trying to do the right thing.