How To Write The Future

Updated: 12 May 2025 • 152 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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“A well crafted religion can really add depth to your world building and create some incredible conflicts and tensions that can move your story forward.” In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, host Beth Barany discusses creating original religions in fiction, emphasizing the importance of core beliefs, ritual

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“If I could go back in time and tell 22-year-old me not to go into TV, but instead to center on what your heart was, the writing, and the creating stories, and creating characters and people. Do that instead.” — Aspry Jones In this episode of the How To Write the Future podcast, host Beth Barany talks to sci-fi fantasy

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“Even if I didn"t have this entire podcast structure, which thank God I actually do, so I can actually focus on something during my travels.“ — Devin Blair In this episode of How To Write the Future, host Beth Barany talks to Devin Blair, the creator of the sci-fi podcast Chemical Rocketeers. Together they discuss Devi

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“I"m always really fascinated by what gets trimmed off the edges. And because there"s gold in there sometimes. And why would a creative professional choose to include this, but not that?” -- Jasper Ezekiel  In this How To Write the Future episode, host Beth Barany chats with speculative fiction writer Jasper Ezekiel, a

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“The really cool thing about character groups is if you"re making worlds, let"s talk about the situations where worlds are in demand in genre, and that would be fantasy. If you"re making a world like that, it"s good to get a whole bunch of different character groups.” — Ezra Barany In this episode of How To Write the F

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“As a storyteller, WHAT IF is fabulous. What if it was like this? What if it was like that? What if I did this? What if I put it this way?“ In “How to Ask Powerful Questions to Unlock Your Creativity (and Your Life)” podcast host Beth Barany, explains the power of asking questions that include effective questions for c

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