Feel free to check your "Literary Devices for 100, Please? "  , or go to sprint "Write or die"   at http://oldandbusted.drwicked.com/
(the free version is halfway down the page. You are allowed one pause during your writing session if you get called away, and make sure you save your words somewhere before you close that window!

For your minor character background story, like all background stories, it needs a beginning, a middle, and an end. This will change the background character in some way that will help set up the character for the novel to come. Good luck!!