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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. Reading The Undefeated
    03:32
    Reading The Undefeated
  11. Keep going!
    01:28
    Keep going!
  12. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  13. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
  14. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  15. Dogs in space
    01:29
    Dogs in space
  16. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  17. A sudden idea
    01:52
    A sudden idea
  18. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
  19. Birdspotting Quiz
    05:46
    Birdspotting Quiz
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