Thanks to Alex and Carrie for braving the six-word memoir. Feel free to add your six-word memoir to the post at any time.

We received the following note from Larry Smith, editor of Smith Magazine regarding that post.

Hey EWN — Thanks for the Six-Word Memoir mention. Love your site. And I’m sure your community would be interested in SMITH Mag’s newest book project, “The Moment.”

The Moment will be a book of personal stories about how a single moment—a single, decision, happenstance, accident, call, conversation, tweet, text, or email that had a profound effect on you. SMITH books always features a combo that’s pretty unique, with famous people (Sarah Silverman, Dave Eggers, Steven Colbert, Malcolm Gladwell, Dr. Jane Goodall), alongside unknown folks (most of whom have never been published anywhere). If you had a couple hundreds words about a “Moment” (or as many as 750) or a photograph, postcard, or ticket stub with a caption that tells your story, we’d be so delighted to include you in this book (out next fall). Of course, we’ll include your bio at the bottom of your contribution. Submissions are due by Dec 15, and the book will be published by HarperCollins in Fall 2011. A longer explanation and a few examples can be found at http://www.smithmag.net/themoment/.

So, I thought that might be a interesting prompt for the memoir group this week. Post a blog entry about a moment that had a profound effect on you here at EWN and, if you’re interested, submit it to Smith Magazine.

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