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Author Michael Morpurgo on how he writes his stories

Before an audience of 400 young people, best-selling author Michael Morpurgo reveals some of the techniques that shape his writing. Michael explains the importance to him of writing in the first person, why it is vital to find a story's point of view and voice and why aspiring writers must talk their stories on to the page. He describes how he came to write the novels War Horse and Private Peaceful and reads from the latter, a powerful novel inspired by the execution for cowardice of more than 300 British soldiers during World War I.

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