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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. Early Years
    03:15
    Early Years
  3. Growing Older With a Moustache
    03:24
    Growing Older With a Moustache
  4. My Superheroes
    04:35
    My Superheroes
  5. My Superpowers
    04:22
    My Superpowers
  6. Quick Quack Quentin
    06:04
    Quick Quack Quentin
  7. Stealing A's
    02:16
    Stealing A's
  8. Oi Frog!
    06:21
    Oi Frog!
  9. Alternative Ending
    03:46
    Alternative Ending
  10. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
  11. Slugs and Brain Pâté
    11:48
    Slugs and Brain Pâté
  12. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  13. Keep going!
    01:28
    Keep going!
  14. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  15. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  16. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  17. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  18. Draw along
    10:28
    Draw along
  19. The Otherwhere Emporium reading
    04:21
    The Otherwhere Emporium reading
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