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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. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  3. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  4. How to Start Writing a Book
    06:40
    How to Start Writing a Book
  5. It Does Matter
    02:17
    It Does Matter
  6. Dealing with Racists
    01:11
    Dealing with Racists
  7. Taking Up Boxing
    03:04
    Taking Up Boxing
  8. Box Yourself
    03:44
    Box Yourself
  9. Self-Defence
    02:59
    Self-Defence
  10. Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
    04:07
    Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
  11. Question and Answer - Part 1
    05:57
    Question and Answer - Part 1
  12. Question and Answer - Part 2
    04:39
    Question and Answer - Part 2
  13. He Had a Little Sticker
    01:25
    He Had a Little Sticker
  14. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  15. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  16. Characters
    01:58
    Characters
  17. Writing in Scots
    02:48
    Writing in Scots
  18. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  19. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  20. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  21. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  22. UK schools vs American schools
    02:13
    UK schools vs American schools
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