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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. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. Kiran’s writing process
    05:08
    Kiran’s writing process
  10. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  11. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  12. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  13. Reading The Undefeated
    03:32
    Reading The Undefeated
  14. Introducing Wain
    00:21
    Introducing Wain
  15. Bear Moves
    02:28
    Bear Moves
  16. Draw Along
    10:16
    Draw Along
  17. Keeping Up With Michael
    01:39
    Keeping Up With Michael
  18. A question of inspiration
    02:51
    A question of inspiration
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