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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. Books and confidence
    01:08
    Books and confidence
  10. Questions from Schools
    09:36
    Questions from Schools
  11. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  12. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  13. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  14. Flirting and locker room talk
    06:28
    Flirting and locker room talk
  15. How to draw a cheetah
    07:21
    How to draw a cheetah
  16. Dealing with Racists
    01:11
    Dealing with Racists
  17. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  18. Cracking questions
    02:08
    Cracking questions
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