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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. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  15. Hercules Song
    01:56
    Hercules Song
  16. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  17. Why comics matter
    06:03
    Why comics matter
  18. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
  19. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  20. Emily's Books
    02:27
    Emily's Books
  21. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  22. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  23. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
    04:25
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
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