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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?
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    Hopeless at maths!
  3. Writing stories
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    Writing stories
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    Lily Alone
  5. Hetty Feather
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  6. The story of Tracy
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    The story of Tracy
  7. Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
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    Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
  8. More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    06:28
    More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
  9. Nadine Aisha Jassat – poetry reading
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    Nadine Aisha Jassat – poetry reading
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    Taking Up Boxing
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    08:12
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  15. Reading from The Infinite
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    Reading from The Infinite
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