Q: Bill, I have to write a character description of a PLANT. A plant that has had no dialogue or personality in the story whatsoever. (The river plant from Gilgamesh). What should I do?? IT IS A PLANT!!!! >:(
A: describe what it does for the story. if you are having trouble, try deleting the plant from the story, and figure out what's different. or, as another approach, try to imagine a different way that the plant could be which would make the story different. then re-set to the way the plant is, and that might give you a better picture of what needs to be mentioned, when talking about the plant and what it's doing for the story. i mean it's gotta do something for the story otherwise it wouldn't be there. or who knows, maybe it shouldn't be there, in which case maybe you could make that argument