“Mrs Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf (post 12): To understand how this author wrote “stream of consciousness,” you have to remember who she was

The characters of this novel have “stream of consciousness.” But what is the process by which an author writes that way?

Does the author continually ask herself what this kind of person would think, feel, and say under these circumstances? Well, that’s what I would do, but I’m not a real novelist, and that’s not how real novelists do it.

Virginia Woolf would write stream of consciousness by switching personalities. She would switch to the personality of a particular character, and as that person, say what came into her mind.

I infer that Virginia Woolf would do it that way from who she was: She was the author of Orlando and The Waves, two intensely multiple personality revelations.