Getting into the heads and hearts of characters

“Above all, I wanted to know the individuals, to get into their heads and their hearts. In all their variety of personalities, they must have been like people I knew and like myself - not heroes and not devils, but just human beings, stumbling from one small decision to the next and in so doing, without really planning it, creating the shape of their lives. As I wrote, I kept coming back to the central question: what would I have done in their place?”

So says author KATE GRENVILLE, as she expands on her thinking about writing The Secret River on her home page. Essential reading if you’re doing the context ‘Encountering Conflict’.

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