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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. Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
    01:23
    Horrid Henry's Monster Movie
  3. A proof reading
    05:09
    A proof reading
  4. How Henry happened
    05:58
    How Henry happened
  5. Ideas for Henry's stories
    07:00
    Ideas for Henry's stories
  6. Not a Horrid Henry book
    02:16
    Not a Horrid Henry book
  7. Tips for budding writers
    03:41
    Tips for budding writers
  8. Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:30
    Q&A with Francesca Simon
  9. More Q&A with Francesca Simon
    04:21
    More Q&A with Francesca Simon
  10. Taking Up Boxing
    03:04
    Taking Up Boxing
  11. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  12. Keep going!
    01:28
    Keep going!
  13. What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
    04:19
    What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
  14. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
  15. Reading from 'Luna Loves Art'
    05:38
    Reading from 'Luna Loves Art'
  16. Hooked on Reading
    03:03
    Hooked on Reading
  17. The power of fantasy fiction
    04:28
    The power of fantasy fiction
  18. Ideas for books
    02:25
    Ideas for books
  19. Have a go!
    01:10
    Have a go!
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