Literary Minor Character Depth Creator
Make the character who is only on page for a moment matter.
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When to use this prompt
- check_circleWrite the scene where the waiter character has two or three specific details that make the reader understand this person lives somewhere after this shift and that their life has weight
- check_circleWrite the scene where the stranger on the train is present for one page and leaves with the reader understanding this person is on the way to or from something that matters
- check_circleWrite the scene where the brief neighbor glimpsed is rendered with enough specificity that the reader has a sense of their history without the narrator having to explain it
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