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How Books Start
Nikesh tells us how he gets ideas for books.
  1. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  2. Move it
    00:51
    Move it
  3. My dad knows everything
    04:26
    My dad knows everything
  4. Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
    05:50
    Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
  5. The noise!
    03:52
    The noise!
  6. The space
    01:18
    The space
  7. What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
    03:19
    What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
  8. Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
    04:33
    Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
  9. 100 Words on Friendship
    01:14
    100 Words on Friendship
  10. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  11. Where The Heart Should Be
    06:14
    Where The Heart Should Be
  12. What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
    04:19
    What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
  13. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  14. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  15. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
  16. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  17. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  18. A sudden idea
    01:52
    A sudden idea
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