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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.

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every 7 days
Average duration
13 minutes
Episodes
168
Years Active
2022 - 2025
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168. Upcoming classes in the Barany School of Fiction

168. Upcoming classes in the Barany School of Fiction

“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…

00:04:07  |   Mon 01 Sep 2025
167. You're invited to the Story Success Clinic with Beth Barany

167. You're invited to the Story Success Clinic with Beth Barany

”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…

00:06:18  |   Mon 25 Aug 2025
166. Emily Golden and Rachel May on Story Theme, World Building, and Conflict

166. Emily Golden and Rachel May on Story Theme, World Building, and Conflict

”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…

00:23:20  |   Mon 18 Aug 2025
165. Woo-Woo and Fiction Writing

165. Woo-Woo and Fiction Writing

“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…

00:10:07  |   Mon 11 Aug 2025
164. Human Design and Fiction Writers

164. Human Design and Fiction Writers

“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…

00:10:46  |   Mon 04 Aug 2025
163. Learn How to Craft Settings that Hook Readers

163. Learn How to Craft Settings that Hook Readers

“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…

00:09:33  |   Mon 28 Jul 2025
162. How to Build Epic Rivalries Between Heroes and Villains

162. How to Build Epic Rivalries Between Heroes and Villains

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…

00:09:38  |   Mon 21 Jul 2025
161. Interview with Kathryn Nelson, Fantasy Novelist

161. Interview with Kathryn Nelson, Fantasy Novelist

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…

00:12:58  |   Mon 14 Jul 2025
160.  What is Creative Entrepreneurship?

160. What is Creative Entrepreneurship?

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…

00:12:32  |   Mon 07 Jul 2025
159. Quick Tips for Writing Your Character’s Identity

159. Quick Tips for Writing Your Character’s Identity

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 …

00:06:29  |   Mon 30 Jun 2025
158. Writing Science Fiction for Social Impact

158. Writing Science Fiction for Social Impact

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…

00:12:59  |   Mon 23 Jun 2025
157. How to Craft AI and Robot Characters in Your Fiction

157. How to Craft AI and Robot Characters in Your Fiction

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 …

00:10:05  |   Mon 16 Jun 2025
156. Essential Tips for Writing Space Opera

156. Essential Tips for Writing Space Opera

“ 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

In this…

00:08:31  |   Mon 09 Jun 2025
155. Tips to Transform Your Novel Into Trilogy

155. Tips to Transform Your Novel Into Trilogy

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…

00:26:18  |   Mon 02 Jun 2025
154. World Building with Women Warriors, Interview with Pamela D. Toler

154. World Building with Women Warriors, Interview with Pamela D. Toler

“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…

00:20:36  |   Mon 26 May 2025
153. Science Fiction Brainstorming: Two Essential Tips

153. Science Fiction Brainstorming: Two Essential Tips

“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 …

00:06:11  |   Mon 19 May 2025
152. Create An Original Religion for Your Story

152. Create An Original Religion for Your Story

“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…

00:10:55  |   Mon 12 May 2025
151. Writing Inclusive Fantasy for Modern Readers with Sci-Fi Fantasy Author, Aspry Jones

151. Writing Inclusive Fantasy for Modern Readers with Sci-Fi Fantasy Author, Aspry Jones

“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…

00:23:33  |   Mon 05 May 2025
150. Creating Authentic Science Fiction Universes with Devin Blair’s Chemical Rocketeers Show

150. Creating Authentic Science Fiction Universes with Devin Blair’s Chemical Rocketeers Show

“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…

00:09:13  |   Mon 28 Apr 2025
149.  Balancing World Building Elements for the Reader Experience with Jasper Ezekiel

149.  Balancing World Building Elements for the Reader Experience with Jasper Ezekiel

“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…

00:05:48  |   Mon 21 Apr 2025
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