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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. Move it
    00:51
    Move it
  3. My dad knows everything
    04:26
    My dad knows everything
  4. Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
    05:50
    Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
  5. The noise!
    03:52
    The noise!
  6. The space
    01:18
    The space
  7. What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
    03:19
    What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
  8. Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
    04:33
    Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
  9. Daisy on the Outer Line
    02:34
    Daisy on the Outer Line
  10. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  11. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  12. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  13. Dogs in space
    01:29
    Dogs in space
  14. Acting and Writing
    05:49
    Acting and Writing
  15. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  16. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  17. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  18. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
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