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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 168
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
28. The Key to Creative Success: The 3-Legged Stool: Getting the Support You Need
”We all have blind spots. Our weaknesses and our strengths. And we need to hear about those weaknesses and strengths from other people who understand what we're up to because they too are up to the s…
27. Fiction Writing Tips: Number One Tip, Worldview, and Time Travel
“You really want to rely on your point of view character's knowledge of the world and ground it in the five senses.”
In this episode of How To Write The Future, titled “Fiction Writing Tips: Number On…
26. National Science Fiction Day, plus Fiction Writing Tips: World Building Through Action
“From the moment your character appears on page one and all the way to the end, they are your ambassador to your story, to your story world, and to everything that happens, also to what has happened,…
25. Fiction Writing Tips: Overwhelmed with World Building? Start here.
“For those of you who are more intuitive writers, I would say go with your gut, go with your intuition, and start by asking questions that are top of mind.”
In this episode of How To Write The Future,…
24. 3 Common Problems in World Building for Novelists
“Our job as fiction writers is to evoke emotion in the reader.”
In this episode of How To Write the Future, titled "3 Common Problems in World-Building for Novelists," Beth Barany, creativity coach a…
23. 8 Steps to Unlock Your Creative Process
“I gently challenge you to be daring, to be bold, to be yourself, and put yourself into your work.”
In this episode of How To Write the Future, titled 8 Steps to Unlock Your Creative Process, creativi…
22. World Building and Mental Models
“We each have unique maps of reality that are specific to our species, specific to our environment, and even down to the specific location where you live, your parents, your heritage, even the food w…
21. Story Success Clinic with Mellissa Green, Sci-Fi Writer
“There's a deep understanding that your characters have of their world, but how do you convey it in a way that your readers get in on it too?”
In this Story Success Clinic interview, creativity coach …
20. Your Mindset and the Writer's Stance
“…Even today holding a physical book, and also being able to share that physical book with other people is so, so satisfying.”
In this podcast episode of How To Write the Future, your host, creativity…
19. News and Updates from the World of Futurists and Strategic Foresight Practitioners
“If you don't share your ideas, then we as a collective and by this, I mean, humanity, we don't get to benefit from your ideas and your visions.”
In this podcast episode of How To Write the Future, yo…
18. What if... and Your Brain
“The best our imagination has, in my opinion, is the question: what if.”
In this podcast episode of How To Write the Future, your host, creativity coach and science fiction and fantasy novelist Beth B…
17. Story Success Clinic with Hugh Tipping, Fantasy Novelist, on Deep Point of View
“It's not just getting into a deep point of view. It's also making sure each point of view is distinct and has its own strong perspective.”
In this Story Success Clinic interview, creativity coach and…
16. The Horizons Model for Story Telling
“It is really hard to pin down and define the present moment, the present now, even from a quantum physics perspective. Our brain is constructing our present reality, but It is already past.”
In this …
15. Interview with Cat Tully, School of International Futures
“I sat in a room full of people, learning foresight and who cared about the future of humanity and who are actually. Doing something about it. I felt like I was home.”
In this episode creativity coach…
14. Trust Yourself and Get Feedback on Your Fiction, Tips for Publishing Success, Part 2 of 2
"My work is for people who like adventure set in space with strong female protagonists who are solving complicated problems and there's some romance.”
In the conclusion of this two-part series on publ…
13. Genre Expectations, Tips for Publishing Success (Part 1 of 2)
“When we speak of our genre, readers come to our work, knowing generally what's going to happen.”
In this first of a two-episodes series, creativity coach and science fiction/fantasy novelist Beth Bar…
12. Character Development Tips, Chat with Science Fiction Writer, Madeleine McLaughlin
“I write to have an impact on readers, just like I was impacted and continue to be so as a reader.”
In this Story Success Clinic interview on the podcast, creativity coach and science fiction/fantasy …
11. Tropes and Niche: Story Success Clinic with Fantasy Novelist, Katie Willem
“There are still parts of us that are yearning for adventures at an age that we didn't have.”
In the latest Story Success Clinic on the podcast, creativity coach and science fiction/fantasy novelist B…
10: Story Success Clinic with Educator and Author, Ann Berlak
“When you're giving other people feedback, you learn how to articulate what's working and what's not working.”
In the first Story Success Clinic feature, creativity coach and science fiction/fantasy n…
09: Book Review of Limits and Beyond
“There is a growing evidence of the huge untapped innate capacity in all humans to learn and come to grips with how complex living systems change.”
In this episode, Beth Barany shares a review of the …