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The How to Write The Future Podcast offers fiction writing tips for science fiction and fantasy authors who want to create optimistic stories because when we vision what is possible, we help make it so. By science fiction and fantasy author and fiction writing coach, Beth Barany.
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S1E208 208. Turn Your Wish Into Story Fuel with Brownell Landrum
“That ties into your whole theme — because the theme of my novels is ‘Lose yourself in the fiction. Find yourself in the truth.’” - Brownell LandrumDo you know what sciences we use in making a wish?…
207. Edit Your Novel Checklist: First Read, No Edits
“Read through the checklist, put it in your mind, and let it just float there. Don't be so restrictive about it. You can always revisit it whenever you want.” - Beth BaranyIn this episode of How To…
S1E206 206. AI Content Licensing for Authors: Julie Trelstad
“Amlet AI creates a tool that allows authors to make it known to machine to developers that their work can be licensed and is available and that they expect to be compensated.” - Julie TrelstadIn…
S1E205 205. Goal-Based Sci-Fi Research With Sue Burke
“One thing I recommend is that if you're really sure about something look it up cause you're probably wrong.” - Sue BurkeIn this How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled, “Goal-Based Sci-Fi…
S1E204 204. Alex Kingsley: Writing Speculative Futures
“Fiction is a wonderful arena for dealing with some really complex topics and some difficult issues in a safe space.” - Alex KingsleyIn the latest How To Write the Future podcast episode titled,…
S1E203 203. Hip Hop for the Future
“I'm trying to make sure we have artists, the next generation people who can get to the open mic for the first time and learn how to hold a microphone.” - Khafre JayIn the latest How To Write the…
S1E202 202. Read, Write, Repeat with David D. Levine
“I was a science fiction reader from the beginning, and I continued to identify myself as a science fiction writer. However, a lot of my stuff would have to be classified as fantasy.” - David D.…
S1E201 201. 5 Upcoming Inspiring Interviews
“Oh my goodness. Sue has so much to say about research and how to use research strategically about finding conflicts and problems and learning as much as you need to know to be able to move forward.…
S1E200 200. Uncertain Times: Five Creative Superpowers
“What is creativity? Here's the short of it. For me, creativity is about combining disparate elements, elements we might not even think of putting together. For us, for us as science fiction and…
S1E199 199. Use Divination Cards to Spark Stories
“If you need help with ideas, if you want to play with randomness, to inspire you, to jumpstart your creativity, to come up with new ideas that you wouldn't have ordinarily thought of.” - Beth…
S1E198 198. Beginning, Middle, End — And Mess
“Life is messy. Life is unpredictable, and so is creating. Make room for that. Create compassion.” - Beth BaranyIn this How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “Beginning, Middle, End — And…
S1E197 197. Business Advice Creatives Can Actually Use
“Traditionally, at least for the last 200 years, there's been a cultural divide between being in business and being a creative, which is born out of a lot of images of the starving artist and really…
S1E196 196. Fun Values Check-In for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Writers
“ I care very much about your success and I really believe that our future is in our hands and as creatives, we have some incredible skill sets we get to bring to that.” - Beth BaranyIn this How To…
S1E195 195. Trust Your Creative Process
“In difficult days when I'm struggling with my story or I'm struggling with my creative entrepreneur business. I turn to what I know and to what I trust, which is my emotions, my breathing, my…
S1E194 194. Risk Taking Without Desperation: Write From Trust
“Every creative project involves risk, whether you are writing a novel, creating a play, a film, or starting your own creative entrepreneur business.” -- Beth BaranyIn the this episode of How To…
S1E193 193. Marketing and Selling Tips for Sci-Fi & Fantasy Writers
“Marketing and selling, especially learning how to do it in written form, is also a form of magic. It's just using words in a different way.” — Beth BaranyAre you ready to learn the skills needed to…
S1E192 192. Level Up with Writer Feedback
“If you start asking for feedback too soon, it can really destroy the creative process for you. It can make you doubt the direction you're going in. There's all kinds of reasons why I recommend that…
S1E191 191. Writing Constraints: The Fast Creativity Reset
“For me, writing fiction is a place of play. So, yeah, that Aha came to me recently and I thought, okay, I need to dedicate myself to just playing with fiction for the next few days or the next few…
S1E190 190. Ethical AI for Writers with Ana del Valle
“I think that if you sit on the sidelines and you choose to ignore these tools, you have no chance to compete in this new marketplace. You have no chance. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. These tools can…
S1E189 189. World-Building Without Information Dumping
“ I really recommend you write your book anyway. Let it be as messy and chaotic as first drafts are.” - Beth BaranyHooking a reader in at the beginning without overwhelming them with information is…
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How To Write The Future has published 208 episodes since July 2022, covering topics in Arts, Books.
How To Write The Future is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 12m.
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