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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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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…
S1E188 188. Fantasy Steampunk: Do You Need Magic?
“Do your research, read widely in the genre, and don't limit yourself to strict rules; go ahead and create something new. That would be cool.” - Beth BaranyIn this How To Write the Future podcast…
S1E187 187. Decode The Obsidian Tower's Setting
“By setting in this case, we are getting the scope of the world. We are learning the rules of magic in this story.” — Beth BaranyIn this How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “Decode The…
S1E186 186. How Much Science in Your Sci-Fi Stories?
“Go ahead and base your sci-fi entirely on your own imagination, whatever science that you want to integrate into your story. And make it feel real.“ —Beth BaranyHow Much Science in Your Sci-Fi…
S1E185 185. How to Find a Literary Agent
“ It's essentially a marketplace. You want to shop around. You want to make sure that this person has a good reputation and you want to talk off the record in confidence with other writers.”— Beth…
S1E184 184. Writing Consistently: Facts and Myths
“Learning how to write fiction-- most people never learn in school, so we're learning as adults and therefore we're gonna have a huge learning curve.” - Beth BaranyIn this How to Write the Future…
S1E183 183. How to Handle Plot Holes Effectively
“It's hard to fix a manuscript that is not yet finished. This is what I counsel all of my clients and people who might want to work with me is write the whole first draft because there's something…
S1E182 182. Writer's Block: Five Steps Forward
“In my opinion, the cure for writer's block is writing -- pure and simple.” - Beth BaranyDo you wonder why you’re not writing and wish you were? Then listen to “Writer's Block: Five Steps Forward,”…
S1E181 181. Writing Through Chaos: Creativity and Resilience with Catharine Bramkamp
“I am currently deeply involved with the process and the importance of creativity in the second half of life.” - Catherine BramkampIn this episode of How To Write the Future, “Writing Through Chaos:…
S1E180 180. Crafting Ethical AI Worlds with Abigail Hing Wen
“I try to write worlds that I believe are attainable and that I think we can aspire towards.” - Abigail Hing WenIn this future‑forward episode of How To Write The Future, host Beth Barany chats with…
S1E179 179. Building Character-Driven Action Adventure Stories with Lawrence Connolly
“Written from the point of view of one character and then another scene from the another character. Now, we would never shift point of view within a scene, but each scene, each segment of the book is…
S1E178 178. Future Fantasy, Real-World Resilience with Randee Dawn
“I love plot, I love character, and I just feel like the colors are bolder and brighter and there's more to work with when I'm writing about science fiction and fantasy.” - Randee DawnIn this How To…
S1E177 177. Monsters and Humanity in Fiction with Surekha Davies
“It all started with too much Star Trek, although you could say that that's a lie because there is never too much Star Trek.” - Surekha DaviesIn the latest How To Write the Future podcast, titled…
S1E176 176. Bailey Lang's Habits of Mind for Writers
“So the habits of mind are: curiosity, openness, engagement, creativity, persistence, responsibility, flexibility, and metacognition. So that's a whole lot of terms. Metacognition is typically the…
S1E175 175. Tricking Yourself into Writing Habits with LA Bourgeois
“I am a horrible little goblin like that, and it's just what happens. So I have to trick myself and the ways that I trick myself are to really let myself see what I want to create.” - LA…
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How To Write The Future has published 194 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 13m.
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