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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. Why comics matter
    06:03
    Why comics matter
  12. Pets
    00:55
    Pets
  13. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  14. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  15. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  16. Working in Comics
    01:09
    Working in Comics
  17. Questions from Schools
    09:36
    Questions from Schools
  18. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  19. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  20. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
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