Writing Excuses Episode 33: Side Characters

Writing Excuses Episode 33: Side Characters

http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/09/22/writing-excuses-episode-33-side-characters/

Key points: Give your side characters their own voice, sensible motivation, and unique aspects. Give them a good motivation and make them the center of their own story. If they are too interesting, promote them to a main character or cut them out.
( The Meatloaf )

Writing Prompt [confusion over how to take a side character without having written a main character results in Brandon suggesting]:

• Brandon: take a side character from the future, bring them back into the past, and write a story about them.

Howard: thank you, and goodnight kids.

Could we run out of clay?

Short version: there's a kind of clay that is mined in a certain location in Japan for industrial purposes. It is a deposit from over a million years ago. The news story was about the mine, but I wondered about what happens when we run out?
( Random thoughts )

I wonder why the news person didn't mention it.