Bianca Marais
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5,725 appearances
42 recordings
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first heard Apr 2026
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Bianca Marais’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Totally.
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Again, if you're going to use that kind of device, there must be a reason for it and keep bringing it back.
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Like Chris says, throughout the novel, and we see it at the end again.
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Okay, before we move on, first a message from our sponsors.
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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.
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And often we say to emerging authors, there's not enough emotionality, there's not enough interiority.
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It's good to see what's happening on the outside, but how does the character feel on the inside?
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And so
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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.
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So can you speak a bit about that as well?
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Yeah.
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And the ways in which she...
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punishes herself are are really really really really awful but also in terms of her deciding never to play golf again and deciding that's that becomes really important later on i don't want to give away any spoilers so it feeds into so many different things that chris has managed to use now let's talk
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about when you write a book from a first-person perspective that it's in their future and they're able to look back on their lives as opposed to writing it in a linear way.
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It starts when she hits the golf ball into his head and we go through time with her.
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A lot of that allows for foreshadowing, which you use to great effect because she's in the future.
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She knows how things have worked out, but she's still telling the story as a story.
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And this is what we're constantly saying to our memoirists.
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Just because something's memoir means it doesn't have to read like fiction.
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This is a great book to read for memoirists to go, okay, imagine this was her real life and look at how she's positioning it as a memoir that reads like fiction.
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