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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. Stuck and The Incredible Book Eating Boy
    12:12
    Stuck and The Incredible Book Eating Boy
  3. Hueys
    11:15
    Hueys
  4. Q&A with Oliver Jeffers
    09:47
    Q&A with Oliver Jeffers
  5. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  6. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  7. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  8. The Undefeated
    01:19
    The Undefeated
  9. A monster quiz
    08:19
    A monster quiz
  10. Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
    03:47
    Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
  11. 100 Words on Friendship
    01:14
    100 Words on Friendship
  12. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
    01:48
    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
  13. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  14. Writing historical fiction
    03:58
    Writing historical fiction
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