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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
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...
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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...
18. Speculative Sci-Fi Adventure vs. Sci‑Fi Fantasy Boundaries
Grounding the Impossible: Sensory Detail and Logic in Speculative Science FictionIn this Premium Edit Lab episode, Beth discusses how to balance speculative science fiction adventure with genre boundaries by leaning into supernatural or ...
222. Inside Book Coach Sessions with Beth Barany
“Where do you want to take your writing? Where do you want to take your writing career? And let's keep an eye on that, and we're building towards that. So it's fun, it's rigorous, it's deep, and this is my life's work.” - Beth Barany&n...