Bianca Marais
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5,084 appearances
40 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Bianca Marais’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The more you find yourself doing that, the more you highlight that and figure out how you can turn that into a curiosity seed, something the reader is actively curious about so that when you tell them it feels like a payoff.
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Rather than
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you know, front loading with with all that stuff.
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Readers love payoffs for their patience.
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Yeah.
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I mean it's the iceberg technique, right?
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What we know as authors shows that tiny blip above the oce well, it shows everything underneath, but what comes on the page, what we put down on the page is just that that tiny little bit at the top.
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It's so interesting that you said Almore Leonard said not to start with weather when one of the most
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Well known openings of all time is it it was a dark and stormy night.
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goes to show there's exceptions to every rule.
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Yeah, that's that curiosity seat.
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Amazing.
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Amazing opener.
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Okay, we're pretty much at the end of our time, Linrod.
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I'm not sure how this has happened.
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I want to ask you one more thing.
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Because while I was reading, I noticed that you don't spend a lot of time on character descriptions.
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You give us like a line or two and I love that because I always ignore the character descriptions unless it's important to the plot.
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Like if we need to know this one's got blue eyes and blonde hair because that one, you know, then I'm like, okay, but I generally imagine the character how the hell I want to imagine them, whether it's my friend.
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Or a family member or some guy I saw on the news.
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