“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 Practitioners: How To Make Your Scenarios Come Alive,” host Beth Barany, creativity coach, and science fiction and fantasy novelist, shares the six-step process that she uses when collaborating with foresight professionals and futurists, including how to create compelling scenarios to captivate their audiences and uses the acronym STEEP plus V to share examples of a possible positive scenario.

RESOURCES

Association of Professional Futurists

https://www.apf.org/

Compass Magazine, Feb. 2023 issue

https://www.apf.org/compass

Get your free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers:

https://writersfunzone.com/blog/world-building-resources/

ABOUT THE HOW TO WRITE THE FUTURE PODCAST

The How To Write The Future podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers.

Tips for fiction writers!

This podcast is for you if you have questions like:

• How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?
• How do figure what's not working if my story feels flat?
• How do I make my story more interesting and alive?

This podcast is for readers too if you’re at all curious about the future of humanity.

ABOUT BETH BARANY

Beth Barany teaches science fiction and fantasy novelists how to write, edit, and publish their books as a coach, teacher, consultant, and developmental editor. She’s an award-winning fantasy and science fiction novelist and runs the podcast, “How To Write The Future.”

• SHOW PRODUCTION BY Beth Barany
• SHOW NOTES by Kerry-Ann McDade

c. 2023 BETH BARANY

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