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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. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  3. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  4. How to Start Writing a Book
    06:40
    How to Start Writing a Book
  5. It Does Matter
    02:17
    It Does Matter
  6. Dealing with Racists
    01:11
    Dealing with Racists
  7. Taking Up Boxing
    03:04
    Taking Up Boxing
  8. Box Yourself
    03:44
    Box Yourself
  9. Self-Defence
    02:59
    Self-Defence
  10. Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
    04:07
    Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
  11. Question and Answer - Part 1
    05:57
    Question and Answer - Part 1
  12. Question and Answer - Part 2
    04:39
    Question and Answer - Part 2
  13. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
  14. A reading from Elizabeth
    02:18
    A reading from Elizabeth
  15. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  16. What is the Nowhere Emporium?
    00:45
    What is the Nowhere Emporium?
  17. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  18. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  19. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  20. Working with an illustrator
    02:38
    Working with an illustrator
  21. Writing historical fiction
    03:58
    Writing historical fiction
  22. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
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