Simon asks: Is it better for writers to stick to characters that are like them? Are the costs of trying to write something outside of your own experience too high?

Resources:  

Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain
Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The White Plague by Frank Herbert
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
1984 by George Orwell
Star Wars original trilogy
Star Trek TOS
The New Testament
Frank Peretti: This Present Darkness
The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter

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