How To Write The Future

Updated: 28 Oct 2024 • 124 episodes
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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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“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  In “Interview with BookFunnel creator Damon Courtney, part 2” How To Write the Future podcast host, Beth Barany continues

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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 podcast episode, “Interview with Bookfunnel creator Damon Courtney” host, Beth Barany interviews Bookfunnel creator Damon Cou

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“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 host Beth Barany continues her interview with Rachael Clarke where they discuss Rachael’s writing process, including o

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“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 started like kind of spiraling and brainstorming with this, what would a horse be like in the future?” -- R.A. Clarke In t

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“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 to my dear lovely character? And now what?What"s worse than that? And what"s worse than that? And that"s how I build my p

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“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 points of leverage are all super helpful.” --Randy Lubin In this episode of How To Write the Future podcast, host Beth Baran

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