How To Write The Future
How To Write The Future is a podcast for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to imagine better worlds—and write stories that bring those futures to life. Each episode offers practical craft guidance, creative prompts, and big-picture inspiration to help you draft, revise, and publish with purpose. By science fiction and fantasy author and fiction writing coach, Beth Barany.
How To Write The Future
Latest Episodes
22. Broaden Your Story’s Boundaries
Broaden Your Story World: Expanding Geographic Boundaries for More Story PotentialIn this episode, Beth Barany discusses how to broaden a story’s geographical boundaries, drawing on Houston Howard’s You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Story.<...
225. How to Convey Backstory for Secondary and Tertiary Characters
“You only need to reveal backstory when the reader absolutely needs to know it.” - Beth BaranyDo you want to know how to add backstory to your secondary characters without slowing down the main plot and action of your...
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 ...
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...