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Scrapbooks and plans
How to take your ideas and turn them into amazing stories
  1. Scrapbooks and plans
    05:43
    Scrapbooks and plans
  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. Draw Goldy the Gecko
    04:43
    Draw Goldy the Gecko
  14. Daisy on the Outer Line
    02:34
    Daisy on the Outer Line
  15. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  16. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  17. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  18. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
  19. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  20. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  21. More questions for Sav
    02:00
    More questions for Sav
  22. Finding the bear
    01:06
    Finding the bear
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