Character sketch

I want to create a character, one character who I can really love, one character to write about for a while, maybe sometimes from they're perspective and maybe sometimes about them from other character's perspectives; put them in different scenarios and use different writing exercises but always write about the same person, so I can really get to know them. I want to see what it's like to focus that much on one character. It's my new writing goal. I'm also doing a little bit of writing every day (not all of it ends up on here because sometimes I get off work and am too tired to even turn the computer on, but I figured you would understand) which feels really good, like a real commitment to myself, an investment in my future. If I can get it so I'm writing about the same thing every day that will be quite an achievement. That will show discipline. Which I can't say I have always had. I think I learned it from running. Anyway, I hear it's valuable when you want to be a writer so I think I'll try to covet it, starting now. I'm starting with the every day thing and working my way up. So far it's going really well, I'll let you know about any progress. 

So about that character... I think they need to possess a lot of things I want (not necessarily possessions, maybe characteristics or ideas) so I can really like them and want to hang out with them every day. I know I can't make them too perfect because then I will hate them, but there has to be something, or many somethings that keep me attached. Maybe they'll be doing something I've always wanted to do or living somewhere I've always wanted to live. I was thinking about putting them in a place I want to learn about so I can do some reading or research on the area to make everything feel more authentic to me. I've always wanted to live by the ocean, so lets start with that. A small ocean town. Probably tourist-y as seems to happen so often. Seagulls and salt and lighthouses and sand and shells and fishing line and knots and driftwood and windblown scrubby plants and cliffs and dramatic skies and harsh storms. It all sounds so intriguing to me. I think it will be enough to keep me interested. And, for the realist in me, lets make him a man. Men are much more likely to hold my interest, lets be honest. He's well weathered, hard-working and quiet. Maybe a sailor. No, too generic. He draws caricatures on the boardwalk. Too artsy. Hmm... He's a fishmonger. He works on the docks and throws fish and guts them and smells rotten and gets all oily and sunburned and cuts his hands sometimes on the ropes and sometimes on knives. He knows a good fish when he sees one. He can tie all kinds of knots. He's up before dawn, takes a cold shower and is out the door. He lives just outside of town in a cabin overlooking the ocean. A few miles down the shore there is a lighthouse and he can see it from his bedroom window, and it flashes all night long across his pillow, and he likes it that way. He doesn't close the blinds. He's not grumpy or crotchety as most hermits are. He's younger. About 30. Maybe a little sassy but certainly not mean. What are his dreams, his fears, what motivates him and what holds him back, why does he do what he does and what made him that way? Sadly I'm too tired to answer all the questions. This is just the beginning. Someday soon he'll have a name and an eye color and a car make and model and a favorite shirt and some bad habits to go along with the more complicated stuff, and I'll let you know when it happens. I'm so excited!