What Many Writers Don’t Understand About Character Development

How to make readers care about your characters

John Ilho
The Writing Cooperative
10 min readFeb 8, 2023

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Characters.

You can’t write a story without them.

Well, that’s not true. You can. But that doesn’t mean you should, though.

They are the most important elements in your story (I know, I say ‘X is the most…

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