: Re: Character development in a story? I am working on a book for fun and have thought a lot about character development. Is character development as important as the actual dialog of the story?

I agree with Lauren I think you're confusing character establishment with character development. Character development is something you do before or while you're writing the story.

I'm the type who develops the characters while writing the story (throughout the story not only at the beginning). For me, they can only become alive if I see them interacting with the story because, in a sense, they are the story. Then after they are somehow developed I go back and develop them a bit more.

Although I think developing too much a character is never a bad thing, I don't understand why you want to see it as something separated from the story or dialogue. The story is the character, and the character is the story.

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