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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. What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
    03:02
    What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
  10. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  11. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  12. Questions and Answers
    06:15
    Questions and Answers
  13. Kiran’s writing process
    05:08
    Kiran’s writing process
  14. Names and Questions
    07:57
    Names and Questions
  15. Comics
    04:26
    Comics
  16. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  17. Questions from schools
    08:43
    Questions from schools
  18. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
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