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How do you come up with names for your characters?
Arlo and Augustus are great names for characters, but how does Catherine dream them up?
  1. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  2. Ghosts of Heaven
    02:56
    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
    02:59
    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
    05:51
    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
    01:59
    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
    03:16
    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
    01:36
    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
    05:54
    Questions near
  10. Questions far
    02:42
    Questions far
  11. Relationship Behaviour
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    Relationship Behaviour
  12. A reading from Elizabeth
    02:18
    A reading from Elizabeth
  13. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  14. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  15. Creating a Poem
    08:58
    Creating a Poem
  16. The story rollercoaster
    00:58
    The story rollercoaster
  17. Dogs in space
    01:29
    Dogs in space
  18. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
  19. Reluctant reader to avid writer
    08:03
    Reluctant reader to avid writer
  20. Kiran’s writing process
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    Kiran’s writing process
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