Thaidakar the Ghostblood

I have said once or twice on here that acting is similar to roleplaying.

I want to clarify that while giving some insight to what I've just realized about my writing process.

Writing and acting are on a line, I think. Writing on one end, acting on the other. Roleplaying is somewhere in the middle. DND is closer to acting, the kind we do on the Shard is closer to writing.

For a good long year, I was an active role-player on a Minecraft server. It made it so that I had to keep my messages short, I could only have one character at a time. This type of roleplaying, I think, would classify closer to acting.

In acting there is this thing called method acting. A lot of you know what this is, but some don't, so I'll have the definition here. "a technique of acting in which an actor aspires to complete emotional identification with a part."

You see, there's a reason why my roleplaying was so much better than my writing. I automatically started method acting in it, started thinking like the character and giving my lines at times with detailed actions and descriptions. I only had to worry about one character and so fleshed that character out so wholly that I could then start another character.

And another.

And another.

In the end, the most I had was four or five characters, all of the ideas crammed in my head. Only one could be played at a time with any kind of genuine feeling to them.

It's a much longer and more complex story, but this works for now. After I stopped that kind of roleplaying, I found it harder to write. I'm just starting to think it's because I've been slowly more method acting my characters. It was a gradual process of me starting to act like the characters as I immersed myself in doing a lot of role-play.

This is going to totally and completely burn me out of writing. I can feel it in my bones. If I only write when I can feel like the character when I'm an unpaid writer who has schooling and lots of other things that are everywhere in my life, then I highly doubt I'll be able to become as good a writer as I want to be anytime in the next decade. I don't want to be in my thirties before I publish my first novel. 

Does anyone have any suggestions to get out of bad writing habits? Specifically ones that have become engrained in yourself to come out in a specific way?