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Welcome to the fiction writing made easy podcast. My name is savannagillbow and I'm here to help you

write a story that works. I want to prove to you that writing a novel doesn't have to be overwhelming.

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let's get started. In today's episode we're diving deep into the opening pages of remarkably

bright creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. And I'm so excited to share this episode with you today because

we're doing things a little different with our analysis this time. We're still going to look at

the first chapter to see how and why it works. So we want to find out how does it hook our attention

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