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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. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  10. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  11. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  12. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
  13. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  14. Question and Answer - Part 2
    04:39
    Question and Answer - Part 2
  15. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  16. Relationship Counsellor
    02:45
    Relationship Counsellor
  17. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  18. Cracking questions
    02:08
    Cracking questions
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