"For sale: baby shoes, never worn" -Ernest Hemingway. At first glance I was confused how this quote had come to be the basis of the famous six word story. My first thought was that the baby had died so the shoes were never worn. Although, after a little research using this website, I realized that it was all due to a bet. Hemingway was at lunch with a few author friends when he bet them each $10 that he could craft a novel in just six words. He wrote "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" on a napkin, passed it around the table, and then collected his winnings. Many people believe that Ernest Hemingway's idea was copied off of an ad he saw while working at the Newspaper. This conspiracy rooted from an ad that read, "For sale: baby carriage, never used". Despite these ideas, Ernest Hemingway's six words have paved the way for six word stories everywhere and continue to impact the world, and my Broadcast Tech class. Some six word stories that inspired me and I found interesting were, Some that inspired me were "As she fell, her mind wandered", "It cost too much, staying human", and "Streets full of water. Please advise".
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May 2019
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