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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. The Egyptian Empire
    16:39
    The Egyptian Empire
  3. The British Empire
    04:33
    The British Empire
  4. The World Wars
    07:23
    The World Wars
  5. Weird and Wonderful Inventors
    02:32
    Weird and Wonderful Inventors
  6. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  7. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  8. Sue's early influences
    04:42
    Sue's early influences
  9. Ideas for books
    02:25
    Ideas for books
  10. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  11. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  12. Creating a Poem
    08:58
    Creating a Poem
  13. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
  14. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
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