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.
“We have a fabulous program that we are launching for the first time. It's a pilot program. And this is for you if you are a writer and you want to serve writers, that is you want to build a business…
”I believe that your unique vision that you are sharing in your stories can impact the readers in unknown and amazing ways.” - Beth Barany
How To Write the Future podcast host, Beth Barany, invites li…
”The message of the story is the thing that they need to learn, which means that they have opposite beliefs that are preventing them, you know, flawed beliefs that are preventing them from learning t…
“Do you like to daydream? I love to daydream. I've always loved to daydream ever since I was a child and when I was a child, I wished I was magic.” - Beth Barany
In this episode of How To Write the Fu…
“Human Design is really helping you work with your energy rather than against it. There is no reason why you have to fight against yourself. It makes it very hard to be a creative person.”
In the late…
“This class is really for those who care about tone, character, genre, and the emotional resonance of your story.”
In this How To Write the Future episode, titled “Learn How to Craft Settings that Hoo…
“ Four essential elements of what does it take to build this epic rivalry between your hero and the villain.” - Said by Beth Barany, quoting Bonnie Johnston
Would you like to know how to build epic r…
“So you see that the main characters’ relationship develop. You see how their country's changing, their themes of mental health and women's rights, social justice, there's magical gems. There's Ice G…
“First principles are really: know how to be creative and know how to get into your creativity.” - Beth Barany
In this How To Write the Future episode, called “What is Creative Entrepreneurship?,” hos…
“Get to know the people, read the history, talk to the people as people. But not as subjects. You're not a scientist, you're a novelist. And being a novelist means getting into the heart and mind of …
“What would it look like if we did take care of everyone?” - Beth Barany
In this episode of "How To Write the Future" podcast, authors and writing teachers, Beth Barany and her husband Ezra Barany, ex…
“ So I haven't yet pulled in any ethical or moral dilemmas that would be interesting, maybe in a future story.” - Beth Barany
In “How to Craft AI and Robot Characters in Your Fiction” ****Beth Barany …
“ Of course, you want to think of what they want, the goal, why they want it, the motivation; what's in their way, the conflict, but also their strengths and also their secrets.” - Beth Barany
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“Be here, be now. Be with your project as it exists right now.” — Beth Barany
In this episode of How To Write the Future podcast, host Beth Barany answers a readers question on “Turning one novel into…
“There's been a long tradition of saying that women that women who ruled were exceptions, that women who fought were exceptions. That, you know, it's Joan of Arc, it's not GI Joan.,And that trap gets…
“Just really let your creativity flow. No censorship, no stopping to, is this right? Is this wrong? It doesn't matter.” — Beth Barany
In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, host Beth Barany …
“A well crafted religion can really add depth to your world building and create some incredible conflicts and tensions that can move your story forward.”
In this How To Write the Future podcast episod…
“If I could go back in time and tell 22-year-old me not to go into TV, but instead to center on what your heart was, the writing, and the creating stories, and creating characters and people. Do that…
“Even if I didn't have this entire podcast structure, which thank God I actually do, so I can actually focus on something during my travels.“
— Devin Blair
In this episode of How To Write the Future, h…
“I'm always really fascinated by what gets trimmed off the edges. And because there's gold in there sometimes. And why would a creative professional choose to include this, but not that?” -- Jasper E…