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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. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  14. D is for Dialogue
    03:04
    D is for Dialogue
  15. A sudden idea
    01:52
    A sudden idea
  16. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  17. What is the Nowhere Emporium?
    00:45
    What is the Nowhere Emporium?
  18. Chris McQueer – reading
    03:07
    Chris McQueer – reading
  19. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  20. Konnie’s Love of Science
    02:32
    Konnie’s Love of Science
  21. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
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