Welcome to 1,000 Characters!
This is a project about exploration, into writing and into characters. The goal is to create one thousand characters, and learn more about all of them. Most days (at least twenty per month) there should be a new story snippet to keep the words flowing. Do not fret that everything (or at least most things) are short, as that is the intention.
1,000 Characters is a practice for better storytelling, improved fiction. The focus is diving into characters, looking curiously and deeply into their hopes, dreams, desires. Exploring new characters, their stories, the places they live and work, becomes a journey of fun. This process of discovery should, in many cases, lead to longer stories, possibly even a novel. Dare it be said: maybe novels.
A total of 108 works of fiction
featuring 37 different Characters!
Featured Story
Published: Sep 24, 2020
Robert was not sure how he should fill the time now that he was retired. Retired? Was that him now? He did not like the sound of that. He began filling his afternoons at the library searching the shelves for new hobbies, or anyway he could fill the time. There was so much time now. The library had become his hobby and he started rearranging books as he returned them to the shelves. They never seemed to be in perfect order, but the call numbers. He was there and he liked things to be precise.