A challenge to define an eccentric character's life in a novella...
June 16, 2018 10:30 AM Subscribe
Suggestions for the contents of a vagabond character's life please. I want to do this in a list format when I hit that point of the story. One character discovering specific items about the character I'm asking about.
Some background:
This character's life is unusually unconventional. He's in California. He is half Irish half Romani. For employment he's a parttime self-taught journeyman and partime gay porn actor. He smokes weed. He has a car, a tent (and accompanying accoretrements for camping, in his trunk), he relishes poetry (old-school though, like Emily Dickinson). He crashes at friends' homes or stays in parked Winnebagos that he might lease for a month from someone on Craigslist. Or camps illegally on the beach.
He does have a mobile phone somehow, maybe a family member's account. He's handsome but not overly attentive his appearance, long dark hair, a goatee and only a small tattoo on his knuckle. He's become involved with a sort of square ad executive who he's met at a porn shoot in the Hollywood Hills. The ad exec is now tagging along in this guy's life.
At one point in the story, when the ad exec is alone he decides to rummage through the guy's backpack and duffle bag. This is where I want to make an actual item by item list of what he discovers. I want to highlight strange and unusual items as well as quotidian and 'to be expected' stuff.
Open to all suggestions.
Thank you Meta Hive.
Some background:
This character's life is unusually unconventional. He's in California. He is half Irish half Romani. For employment he's a parttime self-taught journeyman and partime gay porn actor. He smokes weed. He has a car, a tent (and accompanying accoretrements for camping, in his trunk), he relishes poetry (old-school though, like Emily Dickinson). He crashes at friends' homes or stays in parked Winnebagos that he might lease for a month from someone on Craigslist. Or camps illegally on the beach.
He does have a mobile phone somehow, maybe a family member's account. He's handsome but not overly attentive his appearance, long dark hair, a goatee and only a small tattoo on his knuckle. He's become involved with a sort of square ad executive who he's met at a porn shoot in the Hollywood Hills. The ad exec is now tagging along in this guy's life.
At one point in the story, when the ad exec is alone he decides to rummage through the guy's backpack and duffle bag. This is where I want to make an actual item by item list of what he discovers. I want to highlight strange and unusual items as well as quotidian and 'to be expected' stuff.
Open to all suggestions.
Thank you Meta Hive.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry, this is too broad to work well here. -- LobsterMitten
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posted by zenpop at 10:35 AM on June 16, 2018