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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. 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. Writing in Scots
    02:48
    Writing in Scots
  12. What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
    03:02
    What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
  13. Questions from the audience
    09:53
    Questions from the audience
  14. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  15. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  16. A question from Freya.
    01:00
    A question from Freya.
  17. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  18. How does Ross feel about writing and completing books?
    07:11
    How does Ross feel about writing and completing books?
  19. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  20. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
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