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How To Write The Future
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.
How To Write The Future
Latest Episodes
21. Two Worldbuilding Essentials: Unfamiliarity and Definable Location
Worldbuilding Essentials: Unfamiliarity and Definable LocationIn this episode, Beth Barany discusses two of eight story-world elements from Houston Howard’s You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Story, focusing on revising and editing.First ...
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224. Dictating Fiction: Tools and Workflow
“Dictation can be a creative process partner, meaning it can help you think through ideas at the idea phase.” — Beth BaranyIn the latest How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “Dictating Fiction: Tools and Workflow,”...
20. Advanced Revision Diagnostic
Revision Stories and Support: Lessons from Revising Big, Ambitious NovelsBeth Barany shares personal revision experiences as a novelist (17 written, 12 published) to accompany her Advanced Revision Diagnostic and invites listeners to rea...
223. Shamanic Writing: Traveling Between Fictional Worlds
“We are traveling all the time. We are traveling into our science fiction worlds, into our fantasy worlds, into worlds that we may not even have labels for at first.” - Beth Barany In this How To Write the Future...
19. How to Weave Flashbacks and Backstory into Your Novel: Four Techniques
4 Techniques to Weave Flashbacks and Backstory Into Your NovelIn this premium Edit Lab episode, Beth Barany teaches writers how to weave flashbacks and backstory—anything that happened to the POV character before page one—into a novel us...