“The Blade Turned Into a Pen”—Six Words on the Creative Life
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Urbis is one of our favorite creative communities. Like SMITH, Urbis is powered by writers, and gets bigger and better with each submission. While our thing is nonfiction personal narrative, Urbis’ community of creatives tend to focus on fiction, poetry, and screenplays-in-progress, with lots of peer reviews and ranking to spur on competition. Now we’ve found the perfect mashup for SMITH and Urbis, a six-word challenge on “the creative life.” Over on Urbis, we call it, “Brevity is the Soul of It”: Six-Word Memoirs about the Creative Life, but I already prefer one of the submissions as a contest name: “The blade turned into a pen.” See if you can sum up your life as a writer, artist, swordsman, or raconteur in six well-chosen words. We’ll feature our favorites on Urbis and SMITH, give a few of you T-shirts, and maybe even scare up another book.
One more reason to love Urbis: founder Steve Spurgat is one snazzy dresser—just ask Esquire.
failed at romance. how about sex?
plot is dandy; brevity means fluidity.
Soul for sale, never been used.
-Triumph-
Reaching,
Searching,
Yearning,
Burning…
At Last!
My heart: never given, somehow broken…
Life, take it– or leave it.
Life, take it–or leave it.
Born and burned, dying in flames.
Be careful ladies and gentlemen…I went over to urbis simply to enter this contest…and it sucked me in…it’s almost as addicting as this here place…
I think my best entry was “writer at a loss for words”
Genius Grant lost in the mail.
Um, that should be a lower case “g” in “grant.”
My poet’s soul chose corporate America.
Dreams of “next Hemingway” rudely awakened.