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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. Introducing Liz Pichon
    02:09
    Introducing Liz Pichon
  3. Tom Gates and his mates
    04:05
    Tom Gates and his mates
  4. Meet the Gates
    02:18
    Meet the Gates
  5. Through the keyhole
    01:18
    Through the keyhole
  6. Monster draw
    05:42
    Monster draw
  7. Reading
    03:48
    Reading
  8. Doodle with Liz
    09:19
    Doodle with Liz
  9. Questions
    06:13
    Questions
  10. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
  11. Slugs and Brain Pâté
    11:48
    Slugs and Brain Pâté
  12. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  13. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  14. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  15. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  16. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  17. Chris McQueer – reading
    03:07
    Chris McQueer – reading
  18. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
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