Six-Word Story Guidelines. William Faulkner famously said that a novelist is a failed short story writer, and a short story writer is a failed poet. Hemingway, with his creation of the six-word story, combined poetry and drama into a short form that has grown in popularity while remaining difficult to achieve.
Six words! How can you say anything in only six words? It turns out you can say a lot. Believe it or not, there have been short stories and even memoirs written in just six words. And now, EPA has teamed up with SMITH Magazine to launch the Six Words for the Planet project, where anyone (you!) can submit a six word essay about our planet.