: Re: Getting Inside Someone Else's Head A common problem for novice fiction writers, and one that I feel that I myself haven't quite graduated from, is always writing characters who are like the

It is a valuable pursuit. If you can learn and enhance your writing, it is valuable.

As a writing exercise:

Write down, how you characterise yourself. Your profession, habits, feelings, traits. Then write about a person with all these characteristics but the opposite sex.
Discuss with friends/spouse how realistic this person appears to them. Learn your lessons.
Next change the profession of this fictitious person and change the profession to something you would never do. You hate lawyers? Then a lawyer. Bookkeepers are boring? Take a bookkeeper. Write about the person. Discuss.
Go on changing the person to someone totally different from you. You hate green trousers? Let the person wear them. You love staying at home? Let the person travel all over the world. You get the idea.

The best authors are the best, because they have experience doing this. Catch up!

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