We don’t need to know about every ice cream cone they ate as a child or every heartbreak they experienced as an adolescent, but we do need to be able to connect and engage with the characters in a book we are reading. In this post, I will provide you with some ideas on how to develop rich and relatable characters. For the most part, plot-driven books have become a thing of the past. Most readers and publishers are now looking for character-driven stories that still have a solid plot behind them. To illustrate the difference between the two, consider the old Twilight Zone episodes; although we were introduced to…