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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. Ghosts of Heaven
    02:56
    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
    02:59
    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
    05:51
    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
    01:59
    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
    03:16
    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
    01:36
    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
    05:54
    Questions near
  10. Questions far
    02:42
    Questions far
  11. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  12. Truth and Lies
    13:33
    Truth and Lies
  13. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
  14. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  15. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
  16. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  17. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  18. Themes of The Infinite
    01:29
    Themes of The Infinite
  19. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  20. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
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