Welcome to story board world.
Lettice found herself to be the personified tiredness of the writer of the book she is in.
Her purpose is to act out scenarios with other characters to help explore her writer's creativity and promote good writing.
Frequently she will serve as a prototype for her writer's other works and will have to pretend to be something she is not.
In exchange the writer will write a some chapters all to herself as payment for her hard work.
Lettice doesn't care honestly since she has no choice as a fictional character.