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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. The Egyptian Empire
    16:39
    The Egyptian Empire
  3. The British Empire
    04:33
    The British Empire
  4. The World Wars
    07:23
    The World Wars
  5. Weird and Wonderful Inventors
    02:32
    Weird and Wonderful Inventors
  6. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  7. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  8. Birdspotting Quiz
    05:46
    Birdspotting Quiz
  9. Authors Live with Holly Bourne
    34:04
    Authors Live with Holly Bourne
  10. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  11. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  12. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  13. Questions from pupils
    02:50
    Questions from pupils
  14. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  15. A question of inspiration
    02:51
    A question of inspiration
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