Eventually I do plan on having some sort of backstory for Carl, but I'm not planning on having it done in any hurry. Since I don't have any confidence in my writing ability as yet, I'm currently sort of avoiding pinning Carl down too much.
What I do have thus far is what I've written in past entries, plus the fact that he hangs around the CTC, even having his own workshop there. (I wrote a short story about a morning in his life there, and you can find it here. Note that anything after that happens after the big long collaborative story I was involved with, so characters, places and things are left unexplained)
A few things I feel are important to his character:
Very technically-inclined.
Has invented several things that inhabit my dreams, including a hover-scooter, holographic displays, highly compact supercomputers, AI helpers, etc. Not all are fully fleshed out ideas, as they weren't in any way important to the stories I've dealt with before now.
Because my life is the only one I have full access to (gee, I wonder why?... =^.~= ), I have sort of patterned his personality and situation both after mine and what I would like to have as mine. For example, quiet and reserved, very geeky, few geographically-close friends, lots online, plenty of money to use for the many and various projects he works on, some of which are not quite possible now, but are covered rather thoroughly by several different science fiction series.
That's about all I've got at the moment. Very little history at present, and nothing about his parents or siblings as yet.
He does have a girlfriend at the moment, as I think I've mentioned already, though I'm not entirely sure of all the deatils on that, including who owns the character and what her other characteristics are like, despite having the thickest Scottish-type accent I've ever had to write...
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Date: 2015-02-07 11:49 am (UTC)Since I don't have any confidence in my writing ability as yet, I'm currently sort of avoiding pinning Carl down too much.
What I do have thus far is what I've written in past entries, plus the fact that he hangs around the CTC, even having his own workshop there.
(I wrote a short story about a morning in his life there, and you can find it here. Note that anything after that happens after the big long collaborative story I was involved with, so characters, places and things are left unexplained)
A few things I feel are important to his character:
- Very technically-inclined.
- Has invented several things that inhabit my dreams, including a hover-scooter, holographic displays, highly compact supercomputers, AI helpers, etc. Not all are fully fleshed out ideas, as they weren't in any way important to the stories I've dealt with before now.
- Because my life is the only one I have full access to (gee, I wonder why?... =^.~= ), I have sort of patterned his personality and situation both after mine and what I would like to have as mine. For example, quiet and reserved, very geeky, few geographically-close friends, lots online, plenty of money to use for the many and various projects he works on, some of which are not quite possible now, but are covered rather thoroughly by several different science fiction series.
That's about all I've got at the moment.Very little history at present, and nothing about his parents or siblings as yet.
He does have a girlfriend at the moment, as I think I've mentioned already, though I'm not entirely sure of all the deatils on that, including who owns the character and what her other characteristics are like, despite having the thickest Scottish-type accent I've ever had to write...