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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. Introducing Wain
    00:21
    Introducing Wain
  3. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  4. The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
    03:48
    The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
  5. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  6. How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
    03:12
    How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
  7. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
    01:48
    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
  8. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  9. Fan fiction of your life!
    01:05
    Fan fiction of your life!
  10. Books and confidence
    01:08
    Books and confidence
  11. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  12. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
  13. Wishes
    01:04
    Wishes
  14. Question time
    04:36
    Question time
  15. What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
    03:02
    What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
  16. Toxic Relationships
    04:42
    Toxic Relationships
  17. How did you learn to draw?
    00:36
    How did you learn to draw?
  18. Hand on the Bridge
    02:28
    Hand on the Bridge
  19. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  20. Characters
    01:58
    Characters
  21. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  22. S is for Scots
    03:30
    S is for Scots
  23. Forrester High's 2048 Predictions
    02:35
    Forrester High's 2048 Predictions
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