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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. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  12. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  13. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  14. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  15. S is for Scots
    03:30
    S is for Scots
  16. Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
    04:53
    Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
  17. Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  18. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  19. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  20. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
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