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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. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  11. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
  12. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  13. Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
    09:49
    Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
  14. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  15. Relationship Behaviour
    01:57
    Relationship Behaviour
  16. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  17. A question from Freya.
    01:00
    A question from Freya.
  18. How did you learn to draw?
    00:36
    How did you learn to draw?
  19. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
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