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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.
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13 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
228 episodes
since July 7, 2022
episodic
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“When I'm working on sci-fi, I'm really thinking about this a lot, and I'm thinking about it from my main character's perspective. What is it like to be looking at the Earth from space and from various distances? That just blows me away.” - Beth Barany
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“I realized I had to accelerate the pace. And I've seen this in other mediums with other people in completely different domains. If you want to get better at something, hit the publish button.“ - Beth Barany
In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “Writing Community: Your Secr…
“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 Barany
In this latest How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “Story Alchemy for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers” host B…
“You only need to reveal backstory when the reader absolutely needs to know it.” - Beth Barany
Do you want to know how to add backstory to your secondary characters without slowing down the main plot and action of your story?
In this How To Write the Future podcast episode titled “How to Convey Ba…
“Dictation can be a creative process partner, meaning it can help you think through ideas at the idea phase.” — Beth Barany
In the latest How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “Dictating Fiction: Tools and Workflow,” host, Beth Barany shares how she uses dictation as a tool in her fiction…
“We are traveling all the time. We are traveling into our science fiction worlds, into our fantasy worlds, into worlds that we may not even have labels for at first.” - Beth Barany
In this How To Write the Future episode titled ”Shamanic Writing: Traveling Between Fictional World” host Beth Baran…
“Where do you want to take your writing? Where do you want to take your writing career? And let's keep an eye on that, and we're building towards that. So it's fun, it's rigorous, it's deep, and this is my life's work.” - Beth Barany
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“I was a very good student, and I loved learning, and I love going back to school. And now that I'm not in school, I'm just learning all the time, and I'm following my nose. I'm following what's interesting to me. So I hope you will do the same.” - Beth Barany
In this How …
“It is so, so important on how to give constructive feedback to other writers, and also how to receive that feedback from other writers, and how to create a safe space.” - Beth Barany
In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “The Mechanics of Constructive Critique” host Beth Barany s…
“Everybody's starting line is different. Everybody's starting ingredients are different. We can still do what we want to do.” - Beth Barany
In this inspirational How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “Read, Write, Restart: Writing Tips for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers,” host Beth …
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