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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. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  11. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
  12. How to draw emotions
    04:34
    How to draw emotions
  13. Favourite book
    00:45
    Favourite book
  14. Working in Comics
    01:09
    Working in Comics
  15. Themes of The Infinite
    01:29
    Themes of The Infinite
  16. Reluctant reader to avid writer
    08:03
    Reluctant reader to avid writer
  17. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  18. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
  19. No Breathing in Class
    04:08
    No Breathing in Class
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