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Character Sketch: Charlie “Snap” Reed September 26, 2008

Posted by Bethany Kesler in Writing, Writing Reference.
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Snap,
aka Charlie Reed.

An average height reed-thin guy with oval-shaped wire-rimmed glasses sitting at a computer desk in a small room crammed full with bookshelves and bits of stray paper and computer paraphenalia haphazardly strewn all over the room. A set of headphones on his head, he rapidly types something into the PC at the desk and then whirls around in his computer wheel-y chair and just as quickly clicks and types into the laptop on the other side of the U-shaped desk. He reaches up with one hand to grab the last printout from his printer on the shelf above the desk before it falls and he scans it before whirling back to the PC and working there again.

This man is a Master of the Binary Kung-fu. General little details about him include how he likes to dress (mostly casual – ties make him twitchy), his favorite foods while working (Pizza Hot Pockets, Toaster Strudels, and Chinese Takeout from the Restaurant two doors down along with some nice herbal teas and caffeine drinks), his favorite outdoor hobbies (photography and rock climbing), and even the names of his two cats (Rorschach and Jake) and how he got to be called Snap in the first place (a nickname given to him by a friend who’d say that, “Charlie can do it for you in a snap” in reference to his phenomenal coding skills. Eventually he just became known as ‘Snap’).

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