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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. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  11. Mental Health
    02:25
    Mental Health
  12. Remembering Kobe Bryant
    01:41
    Remembering Kobe Bryant
  13. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  14. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  15. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
  16. Comics
    04:26
    Comics
  17. Reading from 'Luna Loves Art'
    05:38
    Reading from 'Luna Loves Art'
  18. Lauren reads
    04:58
    Lauren reads
  19. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
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