User blog comment:RisingFusion/Getting tired of this/@comment-25941663-20150828223536/@comment-3999760-20150831142220

I also agree to some degree about pastas being more event driven, but characters are important to plots and stories. Though it really depends what you are writing about. I mean if the pasta is a journal/first person narrative, writing developed characters helps the story and progression. Especially for longer pastas that relies on the development of characters. Bad characterization what I've seen are from pastas that try to jam their OCs in some jumbled mess of a plot.

But overall, short stories don't usually need the character's life story and his/her opinion on everything.