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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. Desert island books
    02:27
    Desert island books
  12. Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
    06:17
    Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
  13. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  14. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  15. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  16. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  17. Emily's Books
    02:27
    Emily's Books
  18. Slugs and Brain Pâté
    11:48
    Slugs and Brain Pâté
  19. School days
    03:57
    School days
  20. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
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