100 Stories / An Instagram Journey

I had an idea a few years back, inspired by an iPhone camera app, to write stories that were of form of found fiction.

This app had these evocative titles for the 100 different filters, before clever names for filters were a common thing (at least in the timeline of my brain, stand down hipsters, I might be wrong). The filters names read like phrases pulled from stories. I decided I wanted to reverse engineer these names back to the stories they could come from in the first place.

Cut to some time later and I had written one story (3,500+ words), that took longer to write than I want to admit, and two unfinished drafts for the next two. I moved on to other ideas, the app seemed to fall off the radar of the developer (though a free version still is available), and things went dormant.

Recently, I was taking a writer’s walk, talking though my current projects, recording my thoughts on my iPhone, and I stumbled across the 100 story project in the back of my brain. The number 100 was repeated multiple times and it occurred to me that the project needed constraints, strict deadlines, focus to come back to life.

The plan is to use the number 100 as the guiding principle:

100 stories, 100 days, 100 words, 100 photos

I will write 100 stories over the course of 100 days. Each story will use 100 words (no more, no less). I will create 100 photos to accompany the story. Logically, it would make sense to use the filters from the camera app for each of the story photos, but as I said only a free version remains and the filters, while listed in the app, are not all included in the free version. The upgrade button does not seem to work anymore. Additionally, I liked the names of the filters more than the filters anyways. Also, I’m still prefer shooting with my 7D, despite the completely adequate camera in my iPhone 6s.

I am publishing these stories in three locations. Here (duh), my main website, and on Instagram. This last location will be the most viewed version of these stories and so follow @centum_fabulis on Instagram if you are so inclined.

[djc]