We know that this idea has been around since before The Old Man And The Sea, but as a creative agency that has a lot of time for copywriting and words, can anyone out there tell a story in 6 words that is better than “For sale. Baby Shoes, never used.” [Hemingway] ?
And as a creative agency that also likes pictures that tell stories, LOVE like how Flickr has put together the 6 words idea, with pictures to create this. When Wikipedia’s and Blogs are too long-winded, but pictures are often not enough, 6 well crafted words and a picture are a very powerful way of telling a story.
Probably explains the success of great print advertising.
(Dedicated to The Drum)
Copywriter. North West. 5 Jobs found.
Blog Lots. Get Job. About Time.
blog lots. Takes while. Get’s there.
If you like any of these, you have to give me a book review, agreed?
ok…
Live. Die. Do something in between.
The beginning. The middle. The end.
My shoelaces had been tied together.
Result: Middlesbrough four, Steau Bucharest three.
^(simply insert your favourite game for your team for a thrilling story)
That’s your lot, off out to celebrate getting old, by eating a lovely parmo now.
Don’t write six word storys drunk.
Chewed it. Swallowed it. Dumped it.
I think my favourite has to be a headline I saw outside a newsagent’s in Headingly whilst still at uni:
“Viscous[sic] Leeds rapist still at large.”
Yuk. I imagine he was a bit like jelly… or salad cream…and Professor Quatermass was hot on his heels…
Another headline on a newsagent board for you John, saw it today (think it should be five words, but was at as six), on the MEN boards something like:
Fire Fighters Put Lives At Risk
hmm. don’t they do that all the time?
Favourite headline of all time (which also happens to be six words):
“Life For Man Who Murdered Wife.”
Ha ha both of those are marvelous.
I think we might have drifted from the original rules slightly, but I just remembered another one that happened to be 6-words.
This one was from a pub in Dorset: a sign placed over a stainless steel trolley next to a serving-hatch in a corridor that led to the kitchen and the toilets.
“Note: Not A Baby Changing Facility.”
I just loved the inferred, epic back-story of the cook repeatedly putting his “Fish and chips for table 10″ down into a dirty nappy, or a harried mother putting vinegar instead of talc on to baby’s bottom, until one day they all finally realised, hey, we gotta get a sign. Doh!
Great creative. Client amends. Dog’s dinner.
Tried, tried, tried again. Accepted failure.
got hurt, got lost and forgot.
Luxury toilet roll is for arseholes.
Taken from:
http://jamesandjoecreative.blogspot.com/2008/03/fig-crumbs.html
Haven’t found the right goat yet.
“I grew up; mom did not”
Peace, Love, Hip-Hop; I got Passion