New Tutorials: Six Word Memoirs

Hello, again!

This is the last (but not least) tutorial I will be posting.

This tool is very popular these days and it is called...

According to legend, Ernest Hemingway was challenged to write a short story using only six words. He came up with: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Six-word stories are a great way to practice your writing without actually having to write much. 

Six-Word Memoirs® is a simple way to engage and inspire anyone and everyone to get to the essence 

www.sixwordmemoirs.com is an online tool for writing and sharing with others your own six-word memoirs. Six words that tell a story about your life, your dreams, your beliefs, etc.

Six-word memoirs foster creative writing among students. Tompkins (1982) suggests seven reasons why children should write stories (these reasons, of course, also apply to writing poetry):

• to entertain
• to foster artistic expression
• to explore the functions and values of writing
• to stimulate imagination
• to clarify thinking
• to search for identity
• to learn to read and write

While writing certainly should be enjoyable, and children should have opportunities to choose their own subjects and methods of writing, the importance of creative writing in developing children's cognitive and communication skills cannot be underestimated (Tompkins, 1982).

Follow this simple TUTORIAL to see how to use Six-Word Memoirs

STEP 1

Go to https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com and create a free account. 

STEP 2

Scroll down and you can start writing your six-word memoir. As simple as that.

STEP 3

Once you’ve finished writing your six-word memoir, a saving chart will appear. You will have to select a topic or category in which your six-word memoir would be saved. You can add a picture if you want and a backstory.

STEP 4

Your six-word memoir is ready and other users will be able to read it and make comments. You can also share it through Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.

References:

Six Word Memoirs Home. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/

Teaching Creative Writing. (2013, November 07). Retrieved from http://www.readingrockets.org/article/teaching-creative-writing