Writing from a different perspective can be hard, but mainly it's just a shift in expectations. I once wrote a picture book from the perspective of the milk because I thought it would be best if the milk told it's own story. It was a strange exercise at first, but one that stretched my imagination. Some day I hope to write this story that's been tickling the edges of my brain for a long time, but I just can't quite get into the shoes of a battered alarm clock and all the abuse hurled at it daily.
Really, perspective is just another way of talking about getting into my characters' heads. In a way it's like being all the characters in a play. Each character requires specific traits, a personality, and a story of their own, even if that story never makes it into each book. It's really important to know why the character behaves the way they do and reacts the way they do. What have they been through or seen in their life that makes them tick the way they do. This probably sounds like a ton of work, but really it's just an extension of how we behave and interact with other people every day.
There is a common saying about walking a mile in another's shoes, and that is exactly what I'm talking about here. In order to write the story, you have to wear your character, even if the fit is like an ill-fitting pair of pants baggy, tight, droopy, frayed, they can be all these things and the truth is it takes drafts and edits to get the character down right. Research is king when writing something that is opposing from my own perspective.
Personally, I fall into a very weird category of someone who both loves and hates research. It's like shopping, it can be fun depending on why I'm doing it and who I'm there with.
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