Bianca Marais
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4,862 appearances
37 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Bianca Marais’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 37 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.
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Yeah, I mean I agree with you.
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I think the mushy middles are where writers are made.
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Act two is where good writers are made because that is the difficult part and you've got to keep escalating.
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Obstacles need to keep being thrown at your characters, stakes need to be
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keep getting up.
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So always the most challenging part for me as well.
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With this book, what comes to you first?
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Is it a premise or a what if question?
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And after that you figure out the characters or is characters sometimes something that comes to you first and then you figure out the premise?
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Yeah.
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like I'll figure that out.
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Wow.
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that just feel like a gift from the gods when they're
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Yeah, well okay, we're going to th the end of the first chapter.
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I'm not giving anything away.
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I know how difficult it is to construct this kind of thing and when people give spoilers it's like ah
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But here's the thing.
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So my agent, who's also one of the co-hosts on the show, we critique query letters, and she always says that by the end of the first chapter there needs to be some element of surprise.
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You need to subvert expectations, have the reader already formulating
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their theories as they're going along and then the rug is ripped out right from under them and they're like, what the hell?
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