How To Write The Future

“The other thing that I do is I doodle. I've been doodling my whole life. Raise your hand if you love to doodle.”

In “Episode 68.  On the Creative Mindset with Beth Barany” host Beth Barany, creativit…

“So space elevators really sparked my imagination and are one of the underpinnings or infrastructure of my world.”


In “Episode 67. Inspiration for the Janey McCallister Mystery series” host Beth Baran…

“It is about technology, but it's really about where the industry is going in one to three years and how you can take advantage of it.” — Russell Nohelty

In “Episode 66. The Future of Publishing with …

"You're not doing marketing wrong, you're doing the wrong marketing." - Russell Nohelty


In “Episode 65. Author Ecosystem with Russell Nohelty, part 2” host Beth Barany, creativity coach, teacher, and …

“I'm a sprinter. I want to run fast and then recover for like weeks, months, and then do it again". - Russell Nohelty

In “Episode 64. Author Ecosystem with Russell Nohelty, part 1” host Beth Barany, c…

“You need to indicate to the reader right away that you are writing a science fiction story.”

In “Episode 63. Writing Mystery in a Sci-Fi World,” host Beth Barany, creativity coach and teacher, and sc…

“To me, when you're writing anything with science fiction, the best way to present that is remembering your human foundation.”

In “Episode 62. Science Fiction Romance and AI Tools with Keri Kruspe,” h…

“If it is your dream to write a novel this year, then I invite you into our plan your novel material.”

“I'm asking you to think about the kind of story that you want to write: the genre-- the kinds of…

“Because I think like so many of us need to unlearn things. And also the process of saying Yes to material and opening the top of your head is, it is a gift, I think, to learn to come to creativity i…

"So, I decided I would go back to beginner's mind. I would stop taking classes. I would throw out all of the rules. The hooligan got to come into play at that time, my inner teenager or troublemaker.…

“My motto for myself around research specifically is: if it's not fun, stop doing it.”

In “Episode 58, What Is ‘Enough Research’ for a Science Fiction Novel?” host Beth Barany, creativity coach, and s…

“What are you deeply inspired about, are you doing the research on it? Have you figured out who the players are in the current world who are talking about those things, discussing them, studying them…

“Find your audience and announce your creation to the world. Let your light shine. Enlighten us with your beauty, truth, and masterfulness.”

In “The Creative Process: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends” ho…

“One thing we're not super good at as humans is how to be happy, how to plan for the best, how to design for the best.”

“-Stories allow us to think about what could be in a positive way and to ask tho…

"You can spend as little or as much as you want, and it's really a time and money equation.”

In “Self-Publish Your Novel in a Nutshell” host Beth Barany, creativity coach, and science fiction and fant…

“To be an artist, we must step away from the norm to be able to see it for what it is. A collection of rules past generations used to navigate their world.”


In “The Risk of Living a Creative Life: Sho…

“As fiction writers, we are sharing parts of ourselves onto the page, and that can be very scary.”

In “The Benefits of Working with a Fiction Writing Coach” host Beth Barany, creativity coach, and sci…

“Write with all your senses and let your mind wander far and deep and into the past. Or far into the future for inspiration. The universe is the limit.”

“What is the next riskiest thing you can do wit…

“I'm making it up. And that's part of my job as a fiction writer. And also it's part of what's fun.”

In “Rules of Magic and Science Fiction Assumptions” host Beth Barany, creativity coach, and science…

“Now more than ever, we need to bring our humanity to our work, which includes the truth of our emotions.”

In “Your Creativity Spark: Fierceness of Intent: The Writer’s Oath” host Beth Barany, creativ…