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How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
Holly answers a question from pupils in Scotland.
  1. How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
    02:32
    How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
  2. Ghosts of Heaven
    02:56
    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
    02:59
    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
    05:51
    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
    01:59
    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
    03:16
    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
    01:36
    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
    05:54
    Questions near
  10. Questions far
    02:42
    Questions far
  11. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  12. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  13. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
  14. Draw along
    10:28
    Draw along
  15. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  16. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  17. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  18. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  19. Scottish words and questions from schools
    08:09
    Scottish words and questions from schools
  20. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
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