Other People’s Heads - Writer Unboxed

 

How do you get inside someone else’s head?

 

Seeing the world through the filter of someone else’s personality, history, and concerns is how you create a wide range of distinctive characters with depth and relationships that feel authentic and unpredictable.  It’s how you immerse your readers into a different culture, whether it’s one from the past, the far future, or simply elsewhere on the globe.  The chance to inhabit the lives of other people is why many readers read.  To succeed as a writer, you need to do it very well....