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What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
Author Ross Sayers answers some questions from Wallace High in Stirling.
  1. What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
    04:19
    What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
  2. Who likes stories?
    02:48
    Who likes stories?
  3. Talking in class
    01:47
    Talking in class
  4. Actor Vivian
    03:05
    Actor Vivian
  5. Writing a story down
    02:42
    Writing a story down
  6. Story build (part 1)
    04:03
    Story build (part 1)
  7. Story build (part 2)
    06:21
    Story build (part 2)
  8. Vivian talks titles
    01:18
    Vivian talks titles
  9. Alfie Onion
    08:13
    Alfie Onion
  10. Questions for Vivian
    03:32
    Questions for Vivian
  11. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  12. Inspiration
    02:14
    Inspiration
  13. Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  14. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  15. Wishes
    01:04
    Wishes
  16. He Had a Little Sticker
    01:25
    He Had a Little Sticker
  17. Konnie’s Love of Science
    02:32
    Konnie’s Love of Science
  18. There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
    03:53
    There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
  19. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  20. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
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