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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. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
  10. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  11. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  12. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  13. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  14. Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
    05:18
    Konnie Reads From Cookie and the Most Annoying Boy in the World
  15. Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  16. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  17. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  18. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
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