: Re: Character Development - How much is too much? I've read loads of books where the reaction and development of characters seems to extreme for the events that effect them in the story. However

Character Development is starting at one mental state and growing or receding to a new one. All you really have to do is look at a character's personality, consider how a person of that nature would react given a certain situation (it helps to put yourself in the character's shoes), and then consider how the situation causes the character to react. The experience and outcome changes the character's outlook.

If you prefer a more technical process:

Motive - What the character wants

Method - the actions taken to achieve the Motive, and the reaction to obstacles.

Moral - success/failure, & how this changed the character's motives and/or methods.
You can use this on the scene, chapter, act, or at the level of the entire narrative (or use it on multiple levels).

There are more complex and abstract processes, but I've found this is the most concise way to study character development, but to each his own.

Amichai your advice rings true. and Michael you provides some excellent examples.

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