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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
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    Ghosts of Heaven
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  3. Spirals and cave art
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  4. The beginning of writing
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  5. The teenage brain
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    The teenage brain
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  6. Writing realistically
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  7. Reading
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  8. Into a dark cave
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  9. Questions near
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  10. Questions far
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  11. Writing – when why how?
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    Writing – when why how?
  12. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  13. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
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    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
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    03:07
    Chris McQueer – reading
  18. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
  19. The World of the Crossing
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    The World of the Crossing
  20. Scottish words and questions from schools
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