This post was originally published June 27, 2013, and updated on January 19, 2022.

Getting better at writing can be as fun and as easy as writing in six words. Yes, really!

A few years ago, a friend introduced me to the book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. I was smitten. I began to keep a journal with six word entries. I even started a blog that chronicled pictures of what made me happy and six word captions.

I loved writing in six word...