Prisk! I'm on the titan pad. Would you mind a collab? 

Though it might be difficult, Ex, I try to force myself to write a character who is a stark contrast to my typical, happy self. For example, Sofia. I have to draw on a tremendous amount of external elements such as paintings, favorite villainous characters, and many other things for me to be able to write with her mindset. Of course, there are particular facets of her that come from myself, but with writing characters, that is inevitable lest you have multiple selves within yourself. 

Not sure if that helped at all. Just throwing in my two cents into the pot.