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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. Move it
    00:51
    Move it
  3. My dad knows everything
    04:26
    My dad knows everything
  4. Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
    05:50
    Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
  5. The noise!
    03:52
    The noise!
  6. The space
    01:18
    The space
  7. What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
    03:19
    What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
  8. Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
    04:33
    Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
  9. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  10. Hallowe'en in Scotland
    06:14
    Hallowe'en in Scotland
  11. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
  12. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  13. Relationship Behaviour
    01:57
    Relationship Behaviour
  14. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
  15. Hand on the Bridge
    02:28
    Hand on the Bridge
  16. School Questions
    05:51
    School Questions
  17. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  18. Phil’s characters
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    Phil’s characters
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