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Developing your voice
The writers talk about how they created their own distinctive styles.
  1. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
  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. The Undefeated
    01:19
    The Undefeated
  12. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  13. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  14. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  15. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  16. School Questions
    08:45
    School Questions
  17. Draw Along
    10:16
    Draw Along
  18. The Otherwhere Emporium reading
    04:21
    The Otherwhere Emporium reading
  19. Myths and Monsters
    11:48
    Myths and Monsters
  20. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
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