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

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Really immersing the reader into the character's backstory and emotions can help make the reader feel as the character does. It's important to keep changing a character as the story progresses too, that helps keep things interesting.

A good way to build suspense on a character is to put a veil of mystery over everything they think they know, however, lift the veil slowly. It is a good way to keep the reader interested in the story. Furthermore, when writing events which create events you need to write as if you were writing a diary of that event from the perspective of your character. For example, if your character is scared of spiders you would really exaggerate events to do with spiders.

"The spider crept up to me like it was a sly fox. It jumped at me with unreal vigor, venom spewing out of it's mouth."

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