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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. Elle and the characters of The Infinite
    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
  11. Acting and Writing
    05:49
    Acting and Writing
  12. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
  13. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  14. Meeting the Wolf Queen
    02:20
    Meeting the Wolf Queen
  15. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  16. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  17. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
  18. It Does Matter
    02:17
    It Does Matter
  19. One frame
    01:29
    One frame
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