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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. Hopeless at maths!
    05:06
    Hopeless at maths!
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  3. Writing stories
    04:44
    Writing stories
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  4. Lily Alone
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    Lily Alone
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  5. Hetty Feather
    09:05
    Hetty Feather
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  6. The story of Tracy
    04:13
    The story of Tracy
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  7. Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
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  8. More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
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  9. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  10. Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
    06:54
    Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
  11. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
  12. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  13. Hercules Song
    01:56
    Hercules Song
  14. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  15. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
  16. School days
    03:57
    School days
  17. Wishes
    01:04
    Wishes
  18. Question and Answer - Part 2
    04:39
    Question and Answer - Part 2
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