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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.
Episodes
125 episodes
125. Trust Your Creative Heart Roadmap for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
“I really recommend that you trust your own style and voice. Don't let anyone tell you that what you are trying to do is wrong or bad, or that you're wrong or bad for doing it. Trust yourself, trust your heart.”In the lates...
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Season 1
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Episode 125
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7:50
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124. Interview with BookFunnel creator Damon Courtney, part 2
“I want you to own the relationship with your reader. It should be your website they're buying on, not mine. So they're buying on your website. They're experiencing your process.”-- Damon Courtney In “Interview wit...
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Season 1
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Episode 124
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16:00
123. Interview with Bookfunnel creator Damon Courtney, part 1
“I set out really just to write myself a set of instructions that I could give to readers who joined my list. And ended up building BookFunnel.”-- Damon Courtney In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, “Intervi...
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Season 1
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Episode 123
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16:34
122. Interview with Science Fiction Western novelist, Rachael Clarke, Part 2
“What I'll tell people is to find your writing group, find your writing family.”-- R.A. ClarkeIn this episode, “Interview with Science Fiction Western novelist, Rachael Clarke, Part 2 Part 2” podcast host Beth...
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Season 1
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Episode 122
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12:32
121. Interview with Science Fiction Western Novelist, Rachael Clarke, Part 1
“I'm passionate about sci-fi and I was thinking, I just I love horses so much, and I started thinking, what would horses be like in the future? What does that look like? What would happen? My brain started like kind of spiraling and brainst...
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Season 1
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Episode 121
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13:04
120. Using Games to Design our Futures with Randy Lubin, part 2
“I know for me what I'm working on, especially at the beginning of creating a story I'm asking, because stories have to have escalating conflict, I ask: What is the worst thing that could happen now to my dear lovely character? And now what...
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Season 1
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Episode 120
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16:03
119. Using Games to Design our Futures with Randy Lubin, part 1
“I think games are excellent at building intuition for complex systems, and if you're trying to think through the future, trying to get a grasp of the system dynamics and second order effects and points of leverage are all super helpful.”
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Season 1
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Episode 119
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13:20
118. Dealing with Perfectionism, Interview with Melissa Dinwiddie, part 3
“If you are having fun and you're playing and you're experimenting, it is all gonna feed into what you're doing.”-- Melissa Dinwiddie In this How To Write the Future episode, “Dealing with Perfectionism, Interview...
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Season 1
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Episode 118
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16:20
117. Let's Play A Game, Interview with Melissa Dinwiddie, Part 2
“I'm leading people through some kind of an activity. So often when I tell people that I use play-based methods, or particularly if I tell people that I use improv, they will often jump to the conclusion that I'm doing some kind of role pla...
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Season 1
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Episode 117
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12:28
116. Bring Improv to Your Life, Interview with Melissa Dinwiddie, Part 1
“So every day after breakfast, I lead these creative catalyzing sessions, which is basically a bunch of improv games to get people laughing and moving. And people will say often that it's their favorite part of the retreat.“ --Melissa ...
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Season 1
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Episode 116
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18:53
115. How to bring magical elements into your contemporary story (Q&A)
“It's very common in the urban fantasy genre for there to be a group of magical beings of various kinds.”In the latest How To Write the Future episode, host Beth Barany answers a question from a listener on “How to bring magi...
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Season 1
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Episode 115
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6:39
114. How do I rein in all my ideas? (Q&A)
“Do you need to think bigger? Do you need to think of a map that would encompass all of your story worlds, and maybe they're all connected.”In this How To Write the Future episode, “How do I rein in all my ideas? (Q&A),...
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Season 1
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Episode 114
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5:15
113. Where to insert backstory (Q&A)
“You want the reader to experience backstory from the perspective of your point of view character, who is living in the present and responding and going after their goal and accounting obstacles.“In this podcast episode of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 113
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6:13
112. How do I know if I’ve added too many details to my novel? (Q&A)
“How do you tell if there are too many details? It all comes down to the reader experience. What is the reader experience that you want your readers to have?”In this episode of How To Write The Future podcast, host Beth Bar...
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Season 1
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Episode 112
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5:38
111. The Challenge of Imagining Thrutopias with Jennifer Browdy, Pt. 2 of 2
“I think maintaining our own individual health is a really important part of being able to contribute to broader social health.”-- Jennifer BrowdyIn this latest How To Write the Future podcast episode, host Beth Barany ...
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Season 1
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Episode 111
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12:25
110. The Challenge of Imagining Thrutopias with Jennifer Browdy, Pt. 1 of 2
“Human creativity, the amazing thing about it is that we can come up with a thought that's never been thought before. We have these dreams that come to us that are totally unique and nobody but each one of us can have that particular perspe...
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Season 1
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Episode 110
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13:51
109. Interview with Michael Kilman, Co-Author of Build Better Worlds, part 2 of 2
“Every culture is telling different stories to some degree. And when we share our each other's stories and we read and learn and engage and practice empathy, then we stand a better chance of understanding the ways in which our diversity is ...
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Season 1
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Episode 109
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14:44
108. Interview with Michael Kilman, Co-Author of Build Better Worlds, part 1 of 2
“I think if you're writing truthfully, because that's what we're trying to do a lot of times as author, telling a good story, but being honest in our writing and in terms of the human experience, I think it really helps to have some sort of...
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Season 1
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Episode 108
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11:21
107. The Name of the Game is Change
“I want to encourage you to have it rooted in heart. In fact, I bet you, it already is. What you care about is what you're writing about. So, Where is the heart in your work?”In “The Name of the Game is Change” episode, novelis...
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Season 1
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Episode 107
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8:24
106. Books to films: Why the Switch
“Humans have been shaping culture from the very beginning. And we are obviously continuing to do so even today.And. I really believe that through the stories we tell ourselves, through the stories we tell each other through ...
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Season 1
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Episode 106
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11:26
105. Your Creativity vs. ChatGPT
“All this to say, exercise your creativity. Find ways to put disparate things that don't normally go together, put them together and see what happens. Ask yourself: "What if...?" Such a powerful question. Every day find ways to learn someth...
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Season 1
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Episode 105
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9:31
104. Upcoming Writerly Events, June 2024
“I will invite you to bring all the parts of you into creating an author marketing goal or goals. And a plan, a plan that is doable, sustainable, and oh my gosh, fun.”In this episode, “Upcoming Writerly Events, June 2024” H...
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Season 1
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Episode 104
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7:25
103. Economics: More Than Money and Markets (Build Better Worlds, 4 of 4)
“My point here is I want to encourage you that even if you don't see anybody else crafting the kind of story, or living the kind of life that you are, that number one, you're actually not alone because all artists are trying to do that. Uh,...
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Season 1
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Episode 103
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14:13
102. The Sacred: Religion and Mysticism (Build Better Worlds, 3 of 4)
“So how does religion or mysticism fit into your story and how can you make it complex and nuanced and not homogeneous, which is the authors here say is one of the biggest problems they see in people's fictional worlds.”In ...
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Season 1
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Episode 102
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12:25
101. Myth, Imagined Past, and Cultural Purity in Fiction (Build Better Worlds, 2 of 4)
“So I lived in France. After the meal, we would have cheese for dessert. That was a common dessert. And when I was in the country, outside of Paris in the Dijon area, dessert was pears and cheese. That was like, oh, the best dessert to be p...
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Season 1
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Episode 101
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10:34