Writing as someone else
Writing is weird. When you write as someone else you leave your personality behind, or most of it, and assume the thoughts and identity of someone who you might completely disagree with. That, of course, is also the most tempting thing about writing as someone else. You can get away from who you are for a while, and you can explore ideas and concepts which you wouldn’t normally be happy – or comfortable – about going anywhere near.
For me, I’ve always found it easy to write as either a man or a woman. I’m not suggesting for a second that I am a master at either, but I am saying that I don’t find it too much of a struggle. For this reason, I try to write from different character’s perspectives as much as I can. And this is just the start of it.
There can be problems, though, It isn’t always easy. One of them is when I am writing from the third person. I was doing this the other week. My name was Diana and I was looking for GP Locum Jobs in Bristol and I was very angry with my cat, who had just done a poo on the carpet. And Diana hated carpet-poos about as much as she hated looking for jobs, I can tell you.
The issue I was finding was obvious to me, but that didn’t make it any easier to solve. The problem was that my opinion kept sneaking into it and replacing Diana’s. I didn’t even realise I was doing it until I left it for a few days and came back to it with fresh eyes. But there you go, that’s writing. A good piece of writing may seem really simple, but those are always the ones which are born out of the most frustration.
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