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Writing Haikus
Brian explains how haikus work and challenges you to write your own!
  1. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  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 from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  12. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  13. The World of the Wolf Queen
    04:14
    The World of the Wolf Queen
  14. Three pointers for writers
    01:10
    Three pointers for writers
  15. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
  16. Cracking questions
    02:08
    Cracking questions
  17. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  18. Reading from 'Luna Loves Dance'
    04:56
    Reading from 'Luna Loves Dance'
  19. Introducing Wain
    00:21
    Introducing Wain
  20. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
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