After the show, the children could attend a workshop and learn how to make a paper version of the Little Noodle puppet.

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So if you end up not doing well, the moral of the story is not to go running off and dropping the class, but to figure out what you did right, what you didn't do right, how to make the second paper better and the third paper stronger, again.

所以如果你们最终没有得到好成绩，这个课程不是让你们退却或是退课，但是去想想你所做的对的事，和不对的事，和怎么样让接下来的论文写得更好。

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Whatever you think those are. Here, you might imagine different people disagreeing about-- oh, but throw in something--but if what you want to do is write the great American novel, then you've got the experience of staying up late at night not knowing how to make the plot work out, crushing pieces of paper and throwing them away.

你能想到的都在里面，可能有人不同意-,插入某某东西，比如你想,创作最伟大的美国小说，于是你获得熬夜的体验,纠结于如何构建情节，撕碎稿纸，扔在一边。

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