Thread:TheToughGuy/@comment-5385060-20151026023133/@comment-5385060-20151026194257

Personally, I hate having loads of my own characters to work with. That means I'm obligated to make them crop up, to show their purpose is more than to just orbit the main character. Then that takes away some of the flow of the plot, because MC has to stop and listen to them. If I don't do that, then it looks like I'm ignoring them. And all that blah. If the OC has a proper purpose in the plot, then I find that easy - especially if their plight goes along side the MC. As in their plight is their own, but tied in with the MC and vice versa. But making them for possibly one paragraph, or serve no other reason than to tell the MC something, then I struggle immensely.

I think Stacy was important to the plot, but not in a massive appear all the time way. Without her, they wouldn't have gotten the evidence to punish Byron.