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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. Reading The Undefeated
    03:32
    Reading The Undefeated
  12. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  13. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  14. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  15. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
    01:48
    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
  16. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  17. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  18. Birdspotting Quiz
    05:46
    Birdspotting Quiz
  19. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
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    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
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