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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. Introduction
    04:05
    Introduction
  3. Genre
    08:41
    Genre
  4. The World
    05:53
    The World
  5. Drawing out the secret character
    05:00
    Drawing out the secret character
  6. Character and story
    08:16
    Character and story
  7. Stuff
    07:22
    Stuff
  8. Obstacles
    04:05
    Obstacles
  9. Choices
    10:01
    Choices
  10. Summary
    01:58
    Summary
  11. Reading of The River
    04:08
    Reading of The River
  12. Names and Questions
    07:57
    Names and Questions
  13. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  14. Ideas for books
    02:25
    Ideas for books
  15. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  16. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  17. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  18. Studio questions
    03:22
    Studio questions
  19. No Breathing in Class
    04:08
    No Breathing in Class
  20. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
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