help?

[prepare4trouble]

You know I said I was going to bed? Well, I didn't.

I'm writing another Traders story, set before the series, about Grant.


Does anyone have any thoughts on what he might have been like back then? I'm thinking around 1992, which is I think when he had his other job, the one that he only had for a week. Because I'm thinking maybe a little more normal than when we first meet him, and then getting more like the Grant we know later. Because what I was thinking was something like having him at this other job and coming to realise that he's not a job having kind of guy...
But in order to get the job (presumably he didn't have any sort of reputation back then) he would have had to have wanted it, applied for it, gone to an interview and impressed someone, right? That kind of implies he was a slightly different guy back then, doesn't it?

Anyone have any idea what I mean?

Comments

[lil-banik-slave.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with new minor characters, as long as they help the plot. I think you should go for it, whatcha got to loose.

[prepare4trouble.livejournal.com]

Well, minor characters would have to be very minor for me not to hate them! (and hating my own story? Not such a good idea! :-D) So that means pretty much all Grant. Unless I can work one other the other characters into it somehow. But all Grant doesn't sound like a bad thing to me!

I've started it already anyway, so I'm going to try to finish.

[lil-banik-slave.livejournal.com]

Yay *promises to keep pestering - you for motivational purposes of course*

If your having trouble, what about a character based on a favourite from either Traders or another show, just to give you a template to work on, so that you can better picture them in your mind.

Failing that, all Grant. Anything works :-D