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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. Who likes stories?
    02:48
    Who likes stories?
  3. Talking in class
    01:47
    Talking in class
  4. Actor Vivian
    03:05
    Actor Vivian
  5. Writing a story down
    02:42
    Writing a story down
  6. Story build (part 1)
    04:03
    Story build (part 1)
  7. Story build (part 2)
    06:21
    Story build (part 2)
  8. Vivian talks titles
    01:18
    Vivian talks titles
  9. Alfie Onion
    08:13
    Alfie Onion
  10. Questions for Vivian
    03:32
    Questions for Vivian
  11. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  12. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
  13. Questions from Schools
    09:36
    Questions from Schools
  14. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
  15. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  16. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  17. Questions from West Calder High School
    05:42
    Questions from West Calder High School
  18. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
  19. How to Draw Eric Dynamite
    08:33
    How to Draw Eric Dynamite
  20. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
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    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
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