Close menu
BBC Scotland
Authors Live

Audio & Video

You must enable JavaScript to play content
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. 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. Questions
    04:03
    Questions
  10. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  11. Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
    03:47
    Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
  12. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  13. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  14. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  15. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  16. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  17. The World of the Wolf Queen
    04:14
    The World of the Wolf Queen
  18. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    19. Now playing
    Up next