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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. Reading from 'Luna Loves Dance'
    04:56
    Reading from 'Luna Loves Dance'
  11. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  12. He Had a Little Sticker
    01:25
    He Had a Little Sticker
  13. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  14. Questions from schools
    08:14
    Questions from schools
  15. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
  16. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  17. Reading of The River
    04:08
    Reading of The River
  18. Writing Tips with... Alastair Chisholm
    09:12
    Writing Tips with... Alastair Chisholm
  19. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
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