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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. Drawing Bugbops
    10:18
    Drawing Bugbops
  10. Keeping Up With Michael
    01:39
    Keeping Up With Michael
  11. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
  12. Draw along
    10:28
    Draw along
  13. Drawing Fruit and Veg
    04:16
    Drawing Fruit and Veg
  14. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  15. Y is for Young Adult
    03:43
    Y is for Young Adult
  16. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  17. Three pointers for writers
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    Three pointers for writers
  18. Meeting the Wolf Queen
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    Meeting the Wolf Queen
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