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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. Cracking questions
    02:08
    Cracking questions
  12. Chocolate Cake
    07:56
    Chocolate Cake
  13. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  14. The life of Matthew Henson
    08:12
    The life of Matthew Henson
  15. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  16. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  17. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  18. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  19. Inspiration
    02:14
    Inspiration
  20. Daisy on the Outer Line
    02:34
    Daisy on the Outer Line
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