Bianca Marais

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5,233 appearances 41 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 2d ago

Bianca Marais’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 41 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · Author Insights From Chris Bohjalian, Bailey Hannah and Tarah DeWitt · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And then at the end of that chapter, it says, I would be 34 years old before I would finally have the courage to go to the local video store and rent Animal House. voice-verified

When I got home and pressed the cassette into the machine, however, I couldn't bring myself to press play. voice-verified

It would be a decade later when I was 44 that I would finally watch the movie in its entirety. voice-verified

By then, thank God, I had years of therapy behind me. voice-verified

And you speak a bit about choosing to use that movie as an anchoring device. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Totally. voice-verified

Again, if you're going to use that kind of device, there must be a reason for it and keep bringing it back. voice-verified

Like Chris says, throughout the novel, and we see it at the end again. voice-verified

Okay, before we move on, first a message from our sponsors. voice-verified

Okay, Chris, I'd love to chat about emotionality in a story and leveraging it for plots, because something we do on the podcast is we critique query letters and opening pages. voice-verified

And often we say to emerging authors, there's not enough emotionality, there's not enough interiority. voice-verified

It's good to see what's happening on the outside, but how does the character feel on the inside? voice-verified

And so voice-verified

Writers tend to think of emotionality as just adding depth to the character, but so much of Meera's guilt stops certain dominoes from tipping over story-wise and gets other dominoes tipping because her guilt informs so much of what she does. voice-verified

So can you speak a bit about that as well? voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And the ways in which she... voice-verified

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