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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. Reluctant reader to avid writer
    08:03
    Reluctant reader to avid writer
  12. Desert island books
    02:27
    Desert island books
  13. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  14. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  15. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  16. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  17. D is for Dialogue
    03:04
    D is for Dialogue
  18. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  19. The Otherwhere Emporium reading
    04:21
    The Otherwhere Emporium reading
  20. Birdspotting Quiz
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    Birdspotting Quiz
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