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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. Bendy, bendy toothbrush
    03:49
    Bendy, bendy toothbrush
  3. Book titles
    03:49
    Book titles
  4. Going through the old photos
    06:17
    Going through the old photos
  5. Hand on the bridge
    02:21
    Hand on the bridge
  6. If you weren't writing poetry books for children what would you like to have done instead?
    02:29
    If you weren't writing poetry books for children what would you like to have done instead?
  7. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  8. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
  9. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  10. What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
    03:02
    What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
  11. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
  12. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  13. This is a democracy
    00:39
    This is a democracy
  14. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
  15. Mental Health
    02:25
    Mental Health
  16. 100 Words on Friendship
    01:14
    100 Words on Friendship
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