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
23. How To Find Critique Partners
How to Find Critique Partners (and Alpha & Beta Readers)In this Edit Lab video, Beth Barany explains how to find critique partners and clarifies how critique partnerships work as a reciprocal exchange of reading each other’s work, re...
226. Story Alchemy for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers
“I strived for many years to learn how to write fiction, and when I finally learned how, it just felt so magical. Even now, seventeen books in, it still feels magical.” - Beth BaranyIn this latest How To Write the Future podcast...
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 ...