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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. Scots
    01:14
    Scots
  3. Writing in Scots
    01:54
    Writing in Scots
  4. Minging!
    00:42
    Minging!
  5. Taking on Roald Dahl
    02:40
    Taking on Roald Dahl
  6. The right words
    02:22
    The right words
  7. Quentin Blake
    00:42
    Quentin Blake
  8. A reading in Scots
    02:35
    A reading in Scots
  9. Questions
    01:21
    Questions
  10. More questions
    03:14
    More questions
  11. Even more questions
    03:39
    Even more questions
  12. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  13. A question from Freya.
    01:00
    A question from Freya.
  14. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  15. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
  16. Toxic Relationships
    04:42
    Toxic Relationships
  17. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  18. Walking and talking
    02:23
    Walking and talking
  19. Cracking questions
    02:08
    Cracking questions
  20. Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
    03:40
    Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
  21. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
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