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In Conversation with Ben Blackwell

B: So that’s why I get, sometimes, quite caught up in the idea of perception and what people think, what’s going on in their heads. So I really like reading Virginia Woolf, for example, because she does this quite a lot. She does differ in her approach though because she goes into multiple characters' heads describing how they see the world. I tend to do it a bit differently- I tend to pick one central character and then close off their heads from everyone else, leaving the reader to speculate: “what are they thinking?” Because quite often that is the source of conflict in the story.

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