Participatory Historical Fiction Project (nonfiction)

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The Historical Fiction Project is a participatory literary project organized by Karl Jones.

Goals

I propose to —

  • Write set of vignettes based on historic people and events, with a fictional viewpoint character for each historic person.
  • Recruit participants to select historic people, and to invent fictional characters to meet the historic people

Participation

Choose a historical person, someone of interest to you

  • "Historic" means a real person who I can look up on Wikipedia or elsewhere
  • Must be deceased (or must have permission from the historic figure in question)

Invent a fictional character who provides the viewpoint on the fictional character

  • This is where you get creative
  • Can be as simple or as detailed as you please
  • Provide a name, at a minimum
  • Preferably with a short biographic statement about the fictional character, a paragraph or two giving some context how this fictional person relates to the historic person

I promise to treat all entries with serious literary respect, whether traditional historical fiction or idiosyncratic adventures in time and space, and to give full credit to all participants.