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Season 20, episode four.

This is writing excuses.

Puppetry as a writing metaphor.

I'm Dong Juan.

I'm Mary Robinette.

I'm Dan.

And I'm Howard.

And today we are going to be talking about my favorite subject,

puppetry. So the idea that we've got for you with this, and we're going to be doing this all season, is that the lived experience that we all have affects the way we think about writing. You've heard me talk about puppetry for basically 17 seasons now since I first appeared on season 3, episode 14.

But I wanted to do kind of a deeper dive into actually thinking about it as a metaphor as a

way for you to also begin thinking about things in your own life you can use as writing metaphors.

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