How To Write The Future

About How To Write The Future

How To Write The Future is a podcast for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to imagine better worlds—and write stories that bring those futures to life. Each episode offers practical craft guidance, creative prompts, and big-picture inspiration to help you draft, revise, and publish with purpose. By science fiction and fantasy author and fiction writing coach, Beth Barany.

Publisher

Beth Barany

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jul 2022

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

227 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   227. Writing Community: Your Secret Publishing Advantage

   “I realized I had to accelerate the pace. And I've seen this in other mediums with other people in completely different domains. If you want to get better at something, hit the publish button.“ - Beth Barany In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “Writing Community: Your Secret Publishing Advantage” host Beth Barany shares how joining a supportive writing community can help advance you from first draft to published novel by receiving the right critique, building upon others...

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   226. Story Alchemy for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers

   “I strived for many years to learn how to write fiction, and when I finally learned how, it just felt so magical. Even now, seventeen books in, it still feels magical.” - Beth Barany In this latest How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “Story Alchemy for Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writers” host Beth Barany shares the transformational journey writing a novel can have on you, including the feeling of magic it can imbue in you. Beth also shares how you can work with her and how to deepen the e...

3. 

   5 Oct 2026

   225. How to Convey Backstory for Secondary and Tertiary Characters

   “You only need to reveal backstory when the reader absolutely needs to know it.” - Beth Barany Do you want to know how to add backstory to your secondary characters without slowing down the main plot and action of your story? In this How To Write the Future podcast episode titled “How to Convey Backstory for Secondary and Tertiary Characters” host Beth Barany describes how you can filter backstory through the secondary and tertiary characters and shares tools to reveal the story’s past. Plu...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

27,083

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

99

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

85

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