Bianca Marais

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5,233 appearances 41 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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

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The Shit No One Tells You About Writing · The Writing Trick That Landed Five Agent Offers · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

It needs to move the story forward in terms of foreshadowing or whatever. voice-verified

So something that authors sometimes just need to play around with. voice-verified

And when you do a dual timeline, dual POV, there's always the risk that one timeline is going to be more compelling than the other. voice-verified

So it's so difficult to make sure that the readers aren't like, oh my God, we're now in this timeline, but actually I want to be in this time. voice-verified

So again, how do you ensure that's not the case? voice-verified

Do you have certain sort of action beats for each storyline that you feel like you need to hit? voice-verified

How do you make each one as compelling? voice-verified

Con please everyone all the time. voice-verified

Yeah, because the past timeline is super compelling in its own right. voice-verified

And I thought it was so genius to have the movie star husband in the present timeline being accused of sexual harassment, et cetera, because she could have gone home for any reason. voice-verified

You could have just had her there and her sister calls because the mom is not well, et cetera. voice-verified

So it could have just been mom's not well, I need you to come back and they work through the boxes. voice-verified

But like you say, the stakes were raised so hugely by what this movie Star Husband does. voice-verified

And what I loved as well is that he was once very famous. voice-verified

Then he wasn't famous for the longest time because he wasn't getting parts and he was at home and whatever. voice-verified

And then suddenly his star rose again, which made it even more interesting. voice-verified

So again, was that something that you knew upfront had to be the case? voice-verified

Why have it that he's not just, he stars rising now? voice-verified

Why have it that he's, you know, he was famous then, wasn't then, is again? voice-verified

Because I love looking at the intentionality of everything that a writer chooses to do. voice-verified

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