>have to flesh out a side-character that's really boring
>>25128753then don't flesh him out?
I had to do that once for an installment of my big story. I did a decent job getting into his inner life, I think. I also got a certain amount of satisfaction in killing him off at the end.
>>25128753You don't have to do this. Everyone will hate reading it as much as you hate writing it.Authors are artists, not garbage collectors
>>25128755he's more like a set-piece who's only purpose is to watch the tides and follow the lunar cycles, which is important because I need someone who follows another time-system.but my god is he boring, if only I could make him a hot vampire dude... oh wait
>>25128765then make him not boring. that's literally your job as an author.
>>25128765make him a stutterer
>>25128765Make his boringness fun by having him speak slowly and verboselyOtherwise give him an eccentric personalityMake him an old vampire (aged despite immortality, like Círdan the Shipwright) whose days of preying on human virgin girls are over and suffers an existential crisis
>>25128753Are you talking about a book you're currently reading or something you're currently writing?
>>25128753Make them more interesting then. You’re the author; use the opportunity to have fun with them.
that character is literally (You)
>>25128753use AI
