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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. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. Reading from 'Luna Loves Dance'
    04:56
    Reading from 'Luna Loves Dance'
  10. Creating a magical place
    06:49
    Creating a magical place
  11. School Questions
    08:45
    School Questions
  12. Three pointers for writers
    01:10
    Three pointers for writers
  13. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  14. How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
    03:12
    How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
  15. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
  16. Chocolate Cake
    07:56
    Chocolate Cake
  17. He Had a Little Sticker
    01:25
    He Had a Little Sticker
  18. Questions from schools
    08:43
    Questions from schools
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