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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. Beat the Calculator
    02:54
    Beat the Calculator
  3. 1089
    06:56
    1089
  4. Perfect pentagon
    04:14
    Perfect pentagon
  5. Fabulous flexagon
    02:05
    Fabulous flexagon
  6. Making Cubes
    05:26
    Making Cubes
  7. Prime number pizza
    04:24
    Prime number pizza
  8. Numerical masterclass
    03:20
    Numerical masterclass
  9. Q&A with Kjartan Poskitt
    05:19
    Q&A with Kjartan Poskitt
  10. Characters
    01:58
    Characters
  11. How to Draw Granville's Body
    07:54
    How to Draw Granville's Body
  12. Box Yourself
    03:44
    Box Yourself
  13. A sudden idea
    01:52
    A sudden idea
  14. What is the Nowhere Emporium?
    00:45
    What is the Nowhere Emporium?
  15. Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
    16:05
    Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
  16. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  17. D is for Dialogue
    03:04
    D is for Dialogue
  18. Writing Tips with... Catherine Rayner
    08:13
    Writing Tips with... Catherine Rayner
  19. Writing in Scots
    02:48
    Writing in Scots
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