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How Books Start
Nikesh tells us how he gets ideas for books.
  1. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  2. Ghosts of Heaven
    02:56
    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
    02:59
    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
    05:51
    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
    01:59
    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
    03:16
    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
    01:36
    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
    05:54
    Questions near
  10. Questions far
    02:42
    Questions far
  11. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
  12. Drawing Bugbops
    10:18
    Drawing Bugbops
  13. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  14. The life of Matthew Henson
    08:12
    The life of Matthew Henson
  15. Where The Heart Should Be
    06:14
    Where The Heart Should Be
  16. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  17. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  18. Going around gardens!
    03:12
    Going around gardens!
  19. What are you favourite things about books?
    01:20
    What are you favourite things about books?
  20. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
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