: Re: Character development and suspense How does/can proper character development add to the suspense felt in the reader?

It can make the reader relate to the characters more. This will make any suspense feel more personal and thus intense. If character development is actually good it may also increase immersion, which also makes suspense feel more intense. And if characters change, develop, in response to events it will make the events seem more significant.

Note that this doesn't really add to the suspense, it just makes reader feel any suspense you create differently. So it can't substitute for actually creating suspense and in many genres it doesn't really help to have too much character development. In many thrillers you want the reader to be surprised, awed, or excited, not really immersed or personally attached.

So don't add character development to a suspense story just because, think about how it adds to the specific story. I guess the same goes for all stories, really.

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