Audio & Video
What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
Author Ross Sayers answers some questions from Wallace High in Stirling.
- What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
- Introduction
- Genre
- The World
- Drawing out the secret character
- Character and story
- Stuff
- Obstacles
- Choices
- Summary
- Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
- Newton Farm Questions
- Sue's early influences
- Desert island books
- Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
- Working with an illustrator
- Start with a face
- What is the Nowhere Emporium?
- Using Scotland as a setting
- Making the change