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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. Move it
    00:51
    Move it
  3. My dad knows everything
    04:26
    My dad knows everything
  4. Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
    05:50
    Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
  5. The noise!
    03:52
    The noise!
  6. The space
    01:18
    The space
  7. What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
    03:19
    What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
  8. Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
    04:33
    Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
  9. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
    01:48
    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
  10. Have a go!
    01:10
    Have a go!
  11. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  12. Slugs and Brain Pâté
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    Slugs and Brain Pâté
  13. The Black Flamingo
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    The Black Flamingo
  14. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  15. Crackledawn
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    Crackledawn
  16. Persistence
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    Persistence
  17. Audience questions
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    Audience questions
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    The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
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