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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. Early Years
    03:15
    Early Years
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  3. Growing Older With a Moustache
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    Growing Older With a Moustache
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  4. My Superheroes
    04:35
    My Superheroes
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  5. My Superpowers
    04:22
    My Superpowers
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  6. Quick Quack Quentin
    06:04
    Quick Quack Quentin
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  7. Stealing A's
    02:16
    Stealing A's
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  8. Oi Frog!
    06:21
    Oi Frog!
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  9. Alternative Ending
    03:46
    Alternative Ending
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  10. It Does Matter
    02:17
    It Does Matter
  11. Children’s Laureate
    03:24
    Children’s Laureate
  12. Dogs in space
    01:29
    Dogs in space
  13. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  14. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
  15. Rewilding and creating a space for nature
    09:01
    Rewilding and creating a space for nature
  16. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  17. There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
    03:53
    There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
  18. Ideas
    03:35
    Ideas
  19. Wizards of Once reading
    04:24
    Wizards of Once reading
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