Bianca Marais
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5,084 appearances
40 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 3d ago
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 — 40 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.
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you know, when you came upon them.
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Who who did you come upon?
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What happened?
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Why where's this going?
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And the person's already coming up with theories, which is again when you've absolutely got them.
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And
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So it's deciding what's gonna be the most exciting, most interesting entry point.
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And yeah, we always saying it to our listeners, please don't load up with context, don't load up with backstory.
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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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