As an author, nothing is more engulfing and, at times, confusing than being someone else. The depth at which I crawl into someone else's head is astounding at times; it's also extremely important. My creative writing professor in college taught me four valuable lessons when it comes to writing: 1. Sometimes the best thing you can do is trash the story you've got and start from the beginning on something new. 2. (I found him out wandering around on campus during finals at about 4:00 a.m...odd? No. For him, the character he had crawled into, it was his normal) It's okay to be someone else for a little while, as long as you can still be you, too. 3. Tell the story that's never been told. 4. A story must be character driven. It's good to have a good setting, but even more important that if you took that character and set them on a deserted island to see what happened, it would still thrive...Castaway, for instance.
I share this with you because I think these are all ways to becoming a great author. I have a short story I wrote in college in Robert Olmstead's(the man who gave me all that advice) class, that was an utter and complete crazy ass story, but it was freeing to write about something so outrageous and utterly unique. Maybe I will share it with the world one day.
Either way, I hope your writing improves every day. We are all a work in progress.