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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Because generally you have an inciting incident, which you really have in this book.
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It gets all the dominoes tipping over.
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Everything that follows happens because of this inciting incident.
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And it answers the why now, why today question?
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Why are we starting this here?
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And you know, Jodi and I had a very interesting conversation about how she could get away with not having an inciting incident.
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Something you've done is something that we also caution writers against, is we say to them, do not begin with
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dialogue if you don't know who the characters are because people are talking and the the reader's like, Well that's cool, but I don't know who this is.
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But I want to show you how Linwood did this and did it so brilliantly.
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And again, it's talent can break any rule.
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So I'm gonna read it to you.
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It's chapter one Reese.
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Tell me how you come to find them.
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I went into the room, I said, and saw them on let's go back a bit.
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What were you doing before you came over here?
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Sorry, I said I'm kind of rattled.
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I get that, it's okay, just start at the beginning.
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Here was this detective giving me advice on how to impart information.
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I was the one who was supposed to know how to do this.
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Spin a tail, let a narrative unfold, present the facts in a logical order, but I was jumping straight to the conclusion, the denue ma as it were.
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