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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. 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. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  10. Draw the Light Ship
    05:16
    Draw the Light Ship
  11. The main characters
    03:46
    The main characters
  12. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  13. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  14. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  15. What is the Nowhere Emporium?
    00:45
    What is the Nowhere Emporium?
  16. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  17. Phil’s presentation
    21:56
    Phil’s presentation
  18. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
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