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What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
Author Ross Sayers answers some questions from Wallace High in Stirling.
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    What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
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    Mairi Hedderwick chats with Janice Forsyth
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    The story of Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted
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    A first science fiction novel
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