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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. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  3. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  4. How to Start Writing a Book
    06:40
    How to Start Writing a Book
  5. It Does Matter
    02:17
    It Does Matter
  6. Dealing with Racists
    01:11
    Dealing with Racists
  7. Taking Up Boxing
    03:04
    Taking Up Boxing
  8. Box Yourself
    03:44
    Box Yourself
  9. Self-Defence
    02:59
    Self-Defence
  10. Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
    04:07
    Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
  11. Question and Answer - Part 1
    05:57
    Question and Answer - Part 1
  12. Question and Answer - Part 2
    04:39
    Question and Answer - Part 2
  13. How to draw emotions
    04:34
    How to draw emotions
  14. Reading from Race to the Frozen North
    02:32
    Reading from Race to the Frozen North
  15. There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
    03:53
    There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
  16. D is for Dialogue
    03:04
    D is for Dialogue
  17. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  18. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  19. Draw the Light Ship
    05:16
    Draw the Light Ship
  20. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  21. How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
    02:32
    How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
  22. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
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