How To Write The Future

“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 cont…

“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 Creati…

“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 Hea…

“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 …

“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 


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“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 podca…

“What I'll tell people is to find your writing group, find your writing family.”
-- R.A. Clarke

In this episode, “Interview with Science Fiction Western novelist, Rachael Clarke, Part 2 Part 2” podcast…

“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 s…

“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 …

“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 poi…

“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 Perfection…

“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 conclu…

“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 favor…

“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 list…

“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 …

“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.“


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“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 Futur…

“I think maintaining our own individual health is a really important part of being able to contribute to broader social health.”
-- Jennifer Browdy


In this latest How To Write the Future podcast episod…

“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 …

“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 understa…