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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. Meeting the Wolf Queen
    02:20
    Meeting the Wolf Queen
  10. A question from Freya.
    01:00
    A question from Freya.
  11. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  12. Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
    09:49
    Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
  13. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  14. More questions for Sav
    02:00
    More questions for Sav
  15. A reading from Elizabeth
    02:18
    A reading from Elizabeth
  16. Authors Live with Holly Bourne
    34:04
    Authors Live with Holly Bourne
  17. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  18. How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
    03:12
    How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
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