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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
14. How to End Book One in a Series
How to End Book One in a Sci-Fi or Fantasy SeriesIn this episode, Beth Barany explains how to end book one in a sci-fi or fantasy series when more books may follow, emphasizing that multiple arcs are in play—relationships, externa...
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217. How A Character's Breathing Reveals Their Emotion in Your Novel
“It all starts with awareness of yourself and noticing how you're feeling at different moments and how you're breathing and your emotional state, how we tie them together in our own awareness.” - Beth BaranyDid you know the five...
13. Constructive Critique Basics
How to Give (and Receive) Constructive Critique in a Writing GroupBeth offers tips for giving and receiving critique in a way that is constructive, respectful, and supportive.She recommends first asking writers what specifi...
216. How to Restart Your Writing after a Break
“Do not make yourself wrong. Life is busy. We have multiple commitments that we're juggling, all of us.” - Beth BaranyIn this How To Write the Future podcast episode titled “How to Restart Your Writing after a Break,” hos...
11. Five Plot Points and Story Grid
Four Story Structure Maps (Part 1): Five-Point Plot Structure and Story Grid’s Five CommandmentsIn this episode, Beth Barany introduces four story structure maps that have influenced her writing, noting that many more exist and that stru...