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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. The Choosing
    03:14
    The Choosing
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  3. From a Mouse
    04:19
    From a Mouse
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  4. To a Mouse
    02:42
    To a Mouse
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  5. Tam o' Shanter
    05:50
    Tam o' Shanter
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  6. Q&A with Liz Lochhead
    06:10
    Q&A with Liz Lochhead
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  7. More Q&A with Liz Lochhead
    06:56
    More Q&A with Liz Lochhead
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  8. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
  9. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  10. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  11. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  12. Flirting and locker room talk
    06:28
    Flirting and locker room talk
  13. Reading from Race to the Frozen North
    02:32
    Reading from Race to the Frozen North
  14. Draw Noi and his dad
    10:03
    Draw Noi and his dad
  15. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  16. A Dog with Nice Ears
    07:10
    A Dog with Nice Ears
  17. Questions from the audience
    09:53
    Questions from the audience
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