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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. Hopeless at maths!
    05:06
    Hopeless at maths!
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  3. Writing stories
    04:44
    Writing stories
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  4. Lily Alone
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    Lily Alone
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  5. Hetty Feather
    09:05
    Hetty Feather
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  6. The story of Tracy
    04:13
    The story of Tracy
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  7. Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    04:44
    Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
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  8. More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    06:28
    More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
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  9. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  10. How to draw emotions
    04:34
    How to draw emotions
  11. Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
    04:53
    Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
  12. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  13. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  14. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  15. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  16. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  17. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  18. What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
    01:13
    What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
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