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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
131 episodes
131. Trust-Your-Heart Marketing (Step 6)
“It helped me see that marketing is really about you offering your gift, your book, which is your gift.“In "Trust-Your-Heart Marketing (Trust Your Creative Heart Roadmap, Step 6)" podcast host Beth Barany explores ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 131
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8:52
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130. Take 2-95! Revise for your readers. Writing is rewriting. (Step 5)
“We write for ourselves, And we revise for our readers.”In “Take 2-95! Revise for your readers. Writing is rewriting. (Trust Your Creative Heart Roadmap, Step 5)" How To Write The Future podcast host, Beth Barany foc...
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Season 1
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Episode 130
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8:20
129. Take 1. Write Your Messy First Draft. (Step 4)
“Give yourself an opportunity to be perfectly imperfect.”This episode is part of a mini-series based on the “Trust Your Creative Heart Roadmap” where Beth Barany discusses the method she developed to help writers go from idea to...
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Season 1
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Episode 129
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6:14
128. Story Development (Step 3)
“Get to know your characters and really understand how they perceive the world. So that you can write the book in their voice.”In this latest episode of How To Write the Future, host Beth Barany continues to guide listen...
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Season 1
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Episode 128
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8:31
127. Writing practice. "I can do this." (Step 2)
“To write a novel, you really need to be able to already be able to sit down and write. Even if it's just a little bit at a time.”This episode is part of a mini-series based on the “Trust Your Creative Heart Roadmap” where Beth ...
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Season 1
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Episode 127
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7:02
126. You are Here: Take an Assessment and Clarify Your Goals (Step 1)
“I help you go from idea to finished science fiction or fantasy novel that you are proud of.”How To Write the Future host, Beth Barany kicks off her first episode based on her Trust Your Creative Heart Roadmap meth...
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Season 1
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Episode 126
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6:32
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
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