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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. Why comics matter
    06:03
    Why comics matter
  11. Themes of The Infinite
    01:29
    Themes of The Infinite
  12. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  13. The Crackledawn Dragon
    02:10
    The Crackledawn Dragon
  14. Sue's early influences
    04:42
    Sue's early influences
  15. Writing in Scots
    02:48
    Writing in Scots
  16. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
  17. More Cookie Books
    01:04
    More Cookie Books
  18. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  19. What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
    04:19
    What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
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