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How do I pull myself out of my own head and place myself into the shoes of my characters?

I seem to have trouble with giving my characters a seperate voice or letting them make different decisions than I would make.

Furthermore, I'm also curous as to how you're supposed to keep up with multiple characters or quickly switch between their personalities.

Any advice regarding characters would be appreciated.

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What are the best versions of complete works of Plato & Aristotle?

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>He seemed to take to me quite as naturally and unbiddenly as I to him; and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married; meaning, in his country’s phrase, that we were bosom friends; he would gladly die for me, if need should be

>“How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.”

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You can call this guy a hack, but that's exactly what he wants you to do

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Anyone got translations of her stuff ?

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Send Llosa's wife my kind regards.
t. Gabriel García Márquez

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/Lit/,

Post a short story. One that would shed a tear.

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How do I into neoplatonism?

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So, other than The Count of Monte Cristo and the Musketeers stories, what are his standouts? Is his other stuff even worth reading?

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254 - The increase of what is interesting.
>In the course of higher education everything becomes interesting to man, he knows how to find the instructive side of a thing quickly and to put his finger on the place where it can fill up a gap in his ideas, or where it may verify a thought. Through this boredom disappears more and more, and so does excessive excitability of temperament. Finally he moves among men like a botanist among plants, and looks upon himself as a phenomenon, which only greatly excites his discerning instinct.
(Human, all too human)

Life as an experiment.

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*gets misinterpreted*

>Viola.

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What about typos and word omission in published books?
I'm currently reading For Whom The Bell Tolls - Arrow Book publishers (Penguin's) and there was a whole word missing in a sentence. How do I know whether a whole sentence isn't missing? If even Penguin do these mistakes, how can I not be paranoid?

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I knowed he was white inside

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List of classic book titles?

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Hey /lit/ I'm trying to figure out the author or name of this book.. But I can't remember.. Here's some info:

Synopsis.
A barge drops a load of chemicals into a great lake in 1960s-ish America, the chemicals mix to form a new creature. This thing kills a young girl (16) the morgue calls a scientist (hero) and he tracks it and captures it, leaving it to die in a dry dock taking a piece of it to study. The mayor inadvertently frees it while trying to kill it for glory. The creature then sets it every growing mind to attacking the dangerous humans, while a general come to the city to settle this problem or to nuke the city to save the world if not.

Any ideas?