I have a habit of falling in love with my side characters which detracts from my main protagonist. I've even elevated some of my side characters to minor-main characters(characters that are usually around the protagonist and contribute quite heavily to the

You know… a lot of people would argue that you should push your side character into the main character role to solve this problem. For me personally, I reject this advice because… I feel when I make my characters, they already slot perfectly into the roles I wanted them to be in. In all of my stories, it would make no sense to take a side character and suddenly push them into the main character’s spot; the reason they are a side character at all is because a main character presented itself to...