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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?
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    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  2. Ghosts of Heaven
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    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
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    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
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    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
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    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
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    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
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    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
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    Questions near
  10. Questions far
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    Questions far
  11. Crackledawn
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    Crackledawn
  12. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  13. Drawing Bugbops
    10:18
    Drawing Bugbops
  14. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  15. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  16. Joyful Poetry
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    Joyful Poetry
  17. Hallowe'en in Scotland
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    Hallowe'en in Scotland
  18. How did you learn to draw?
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    How did you learn to draw?
  19. Scottish words and questions from schools
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    Scottish words and questions from schools
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