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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. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  10. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  11. Konnie’s Favourite Character
    00:58
    Konnie’s Favourite Character
  12. A sudden idea
    01:52
    A sudden idea
  13. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  14. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  15. Myths and Monsters
    11:48
    Myths and Monsters
  16. Newton Farm Questions
    05:46
    Newton Farm Questions
  17. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  18. Characters and Themes
    04:51
    Characters and Themes
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