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A thousand glimpses of humanity -- six words at a time. "Not Quite What I Was Planning" takes as its inspiration the story of Ernest Hemingway who, when challenged to write a story in six words, produced 'For sale: baby shoes, never used'. Online magazine SMITH has taken this idea and run with it, encouraging everyone from total amateurs to writers and other celebrities to submit a six-word memoir to their site. The result is a collection of addictively revealing mini-memoirs, with entries that run the gamut from Dave Eggers's tongue-in-cheek 'Fifteen years since last professional haircut', through Joyce Carol Oates's defiant 'Revenge is living well, without you', to one mother's poignant 'My baby's name was Sydney Jane'. Contributors to date include: Michael Parkinson, Anna Massey, Harry Enfield, Tony Parsons, A.L. Kennedy, Hilary Mantel, Aimee Mann, Miranda Seymour, Sebastian Junger, Rosamunde Pilcher, Moby, Michel Faber, Jon Snow, DBC Pierre and Joan Rivers, among others. The range of subject and emotion, and the simplicity which the six-word format demands, make for compelling, entertaining, and genuinely moving reading.

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