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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. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
    05:18
    Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
  10. A reading from Elizabeth
    02:18
    A reading from Elizabeth
  11. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  12. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  13. Sue's early influences
    04:42
    Sue's early influences
  14. Phil’s presentation
    21:56
    Phil’s presentation
  15. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  16. Acting and Writing
    05:49
    Acting and Writing
  17. More questions for Sav
    02:00
    More questions for Sav
  18. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
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