How To Write The Future

“Find the people who are familiar with the history and culture of the tribe you're wanting to focus on or tribes and how to respectfully approach them.” - Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer

In “Represent Native P…

“The more you do your research and do things like hopefully go to native events or watch 'em on YouTube, powwows and things like that, those things will start standing out.” - Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer

I…

“I really encourage authors to do deeper research so that they're getting to know the real people behind this one dimensional wall that we often have when we're doing native characters.” - Sarah Elis…

“Everybody can find a place to fit in there - the big thing is keep writing because we love to read.” - Ana Brazil

Writing is a very solitary activity, but relationships are what sells books. - Linda …

“I really do firmly believe that if you just put your work out there, you can get eyeballs on it, which is the hardest part. Eventually, they're gonna read it.” - Edie Cay

In “Episode 44. Paper Lanter…

“When you're writing a book, you don't realize how much marketing is gonna fall to you.” - Linda Ulleseit

In “43. Paper Lantern Writers, A Book Marketing Collective, Part 1,” host Beth Barany, creativ…

“Give it specific instructions, ask it to use the voice or persona of another author, if you're going do it with writing styles.”

In “Use Chat GPT to Experiment with Fiction Style, Part 2,” host Beth …

“I realized I had to be more specific. And you may notice you need to be very specific in your prompts to get the results you want.”

In “Use Chat GPT to Experiment with Fiction Style, Part 1,” host Be…

“The best time to do it was yesterday, and the second best time is today.”

In “Email Marketing and List Building for Authors with Philip Duncan, Part 3,” host Beth Barany, creativity coach, and scienc…

“They need to know who I am as a real person behind the keyboard, which is hard to do.”

In “Email Marketing and List Building for Authors with Philip Duncan, Part 2,” host Beth Barany, creativity coac…

“It's how you connect with people on a more intimate and personal level, you get to control what you say. Nobody gets to take your list away.”

In “Email Marketing and List Building for Authors with Ph…

“Art making is our path back to our true selves. If we have gotten off track and our lives are in our businesses, that will bring us right back.”

In “Change Your Book Marketing Mindset, Interview with…

I'm always writing, writing fiction, writing non-fiction, all the things I write, all the curriculum, and all of that. I really love that. That's what really came to mind when I thought of what I'm e…

“You are now the Energy Manager In Chief of your body, of your brain, of your soul, and we're going to learn concepts for how to take marketing and understand it from a position of what brings your e…

“There's all these different ways that we can look into the future and if you want to speak to some of the major things that you see coming that we might all go, oh yeah, totally understand. And then…

“I've seen so many different stories use science fiction to explore where we are today. And, there's something always very surprising about them. I just really enjoy them.”

In this episode, “Your Orie…

“All good stories are about people who want something so badly, they're willing to face seemingly unsurmountable challenges to reach their goal.”

In this episode, “World Building for Foresight Practit…

“It is very different than how novelists usually think about their stories set in the future or in an alternative time. Usually, we are thinking of only one kind of story in one kind of direction. Wh…

“When we vision what is possible and we put that into our fiction, we actually help make it happen in the world because our readers read them, feel it, and it can change their outlook. When your outl…

“Stories can both be cautionary tales as well as directions on where we could go as humanity.”

In this episode of How To Write The Future, titled “ChatGPT and Creating Fiction" Beth Barany, creativity…