pace, profile, define, depict, portray, characterize, express, treat, invent (a character), develop (a character), establish (credibility), quicken the pace (of dialog), internalize

stretch, embellish, embroider, puff up, tart up, intensify, amplify, magnify, hyperbolize, exaggerate, vilify, ramp up, inflate, aggrandize, pump up, speed up, overstate, demonize, beef up, dramatize, draw out, elaborate, build (suspense), up the ante, deceive (the reader), amp up

devise, shape, pace, imagine, outline, plot, scheme, concoct, develop, word, snowball, ration out, dream up, sequence, wrap up, craft, foreshadow, bookend, treat (a topic), adumbrate, narrate (a story), further (the plot), forward (the plot), chart (a course), expand on, dovetail, sequentialize, culminate, tie in/together