{"id":27720,"date":"2023-11-06T06:38:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=27720"},"modified":"2023-11-06T07:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T15:13:45","slug":"editing-tips-to-help-you-avoid-information-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/06\/editing-tips-to-help-you-avoid-information-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing Tips to Help You Avoid Information Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27721 size-full\" title=\"How To Write the Future podcast, Episode 70 - Editing Tips to Help You Avoid Information Overload \" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1.png\" alt=\"Navy Blue Blog image How To Write the Future podcast, Episode 70 - Editing Tips to Help You Avoid Information Overload\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27722 size-full\" title=\"How To Write the Future podcast, Episode 70 - Quote from Editing Tips to Help You Avoid Information Overload \" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2.png\" alt=\"Navy Blue Blog Quote image from How To Write the Future podcast, Episode 70 - Editing Tips to Help You Avoid Information Overload \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Editing Tips to Help You Avoid Information Overload &#8211; How to Write the Future podcast, episode 70<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStories come alive when they&#8217;re told from the perspective of a character.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u201cEpisode 70. Editing Tips to Help You Avoid Information Overload\u201d host Beth Barany, creativity coach, teacher, and science fiction and fantasy novelist, answers a listener&#8217;s question about when to stop adding ideas to your story and if it\u2019s possible to kill your story by overworking it. Beth also invites you to come on the show as a guest and sign up for a free Story Success Clinic session to receive feedback and guidance on your work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platforms The podcast is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/70-editing-tips-to-help-you-avoid-information-overload\/id1641025914?i=1000633818113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8yMDEyMDYxLnJzcw\/episode\/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xMzgyNTM4Ng?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwio_LjLyq-CAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/13825386-70-editing-tips-to-help-you-avoid-information-overload\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/59xnOMOLSkB94PjjAqKdO9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/how-to-write-the-future\/episode\/166404192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/dfb5492e-41e7-4a11-a518-1af559fd9157\/how-to-write-the-future-70-editing-tips-to-help-you-avoid-information-overload\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3DIRywutiAo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3DIRywutiAo?si=NnGE27objOUiXNO-\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RESOURCES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the How To Write the Future podcast<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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. We cover tips for fiction writers. This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do figure what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for Episode 70 &#8211; Editing Tips to Help You Avoid Information Overload<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone, Beth Barany here for How To Write The Future podcast. This is a podcast for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive, optimistic futures because when we vision, what is possible, we actually help make it so.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What we cover on How To Write The Future podcast\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What am I talking about?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am talking about craft. I&#8217;m talking about mindset. I&#8217;m talking about all kinds of futuristic things that can help us as a people and as writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Question from Our Listeners\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And this week, I have a question that I am addressing from a fellow writer, a creative writer, who is wondering: when is enough information enough, or when is information too much? When do you stop adding ideas to your story? Is it possible to kill your story by overworking it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I&#8217;m going to address that question from Megan Shepherd. She&#8217;s given me permission to mention her name. Thank you so much, Megan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>About me and what qualifies me to talk about this topic<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just a little bit about me and why am I doing this podcast and what qualifies me to talk to you all about this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I am an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer. I have, oh, I have, gosh, 16 books published. I have a young adult adventure fantasy trilogy called Henrietta The Dragon Slayer out. I have a four-book sci-fi mystery series, the Janey McCallister mystery series out. I&#8217;ve also written sweet paranormal romance novellas, and I have five books out there for writers. I teach. I coach, I consult. I speak. This is my passion- storytelling, and I&#8217;m even moving into filmmaking, which I will tell you more about another time. Excited about that.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Megan&#8217;s Question<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, so let&#8217;s come back to Megan&#8217;s question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A little background she gives she says that some good fantasy that I&#8217;ve read has taken one element of fantasy and just evolved their world around it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">True.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or the writer poses a question about a specific fantasy race in an interesting situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I would call that a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">setup.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, and then she gives a fun example: when did the first centaur astronaut enter space?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that was like her fun spitball question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She says: I know that every new aspect you add to fantasy can pollute the plot or just bog the reader down with explanations. However, it&#8217;s tempting to throw every possibility in if it fits with your particular world-building. And then she says: my questions are: when do you stop adding ideas to your story? Is it possible to kill your story by overworking it?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Beth&#8217;s Answer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I would say, Megan, these are two separate questions. When do you stop adding ideas? Is one question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it possible to kill your story by overworking it? The answer is yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I can circle back to that.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>More about Megan<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then, Megan added a little bit more for me to understand her question, which I found really useful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basically that she tends to have a surplus of ideas. And she&#8217;s noticed sometimes her stories can feel overworked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So she says: when I sit down, I have all these possibilities swarming in my head. And it comes out in new scenes, new lore, but no real work is done. Or, I have too many ideas and I don&#8217;t know which ones to pick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so for her, she&#8217;s writing short stories and her goal is to complete a short story that she&#8217;s working on. And she&#8217;s been working on it on and off. It&#8217;s a pet project of hers. It was written originally for a friend and so she&#8217;s motivated to get it done for her friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Beth&#8217;s deeper reply<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. What I&#8217;m sensing from her question &#8211; and I should say that I&#8217;m a very intuitive, whole-brained thinker, and at the same time, I have a lot of processes. So I have both the process side or procedural side of my brain working while I have this holistic, gestalt, intuitive brain that is processing mostly through my body and that&#8217;s how I understand intuition actually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, one of the big challenges that I see science fiction and fantasy writers have, and I&#8217;ve had it too, is you have so many fun ideas about your story, about your world, that you want the reader to know all of them. And so we put them into our story.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Bones of your story<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then actually, and maybe Megan, what you&#8217;re facing is that your story, the actual story, like the bones and structure of the story is getting lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So the first question I would ask is: Who is your main character? What do they want?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is in their way? What are their challenges? And what would you like the outcome of the story to be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can really get lost in all the details and we can lose sight of those things. So if you&#8217;re writing point of view story, so writing scenes from one character&#8217;s point of view, or maybe you have multiple characters who get to tell different parts of the story. So each character you might trade-off between, one character and another or multiple characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And modern fiction writing generally frowns upon, or I should say modern readers, generally frown upon head-hopping. Meaning: In one scene. telling the story from multiple points of view. That can be really confusing. And it&#8217;s also really hard to pull off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you are a beginning writer and you&#8217;ve written maybe a few stories or a few novels, I would say stick to one point of view for the book or stick to one point of view per scene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now this will ground your choices. Your character has their goal, has the reasons for their goal, their motivation, has their specific conflicts. What will life be like for them by the end of the story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that&#8217;s what you want to keep your eye on. And this can help you decide what material to show or not show.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What makes stories come alive<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stories come alive when they&#8217;re told from the perspective of a character. So if your character is that centaur astronaut, then does the centaur astronaut actually know the history of when the first one went to space? They may or may not know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So one of the tricks that I use or tools I should say, is that interview my character about the history of their world, about the history of their current project, mission, goal. And they only know what they know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, this is one of the ways that you can stop adding in so much information is you just think: well, what does this character know?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, maybe your character knows the whole history and maybe your character has read a lot or has a lot of life experience that adds to them knowing so much about the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in the moment of your story in the scene, in the action, moving from here to there, they are not telling themself the Wikipedia entry, usually. Some characters might. And that will be part of who they are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in the moment of the action, is your character thinking all those details about the story world, or are they maybe only noticing one thing or two things?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, this is where you want to use the body senses, all the body senses. I teach a class on this. I call it<\/span><b> Beyond the Five Senses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because we actually have a whole lot of senses. It&#8217;s not just the eye that sees, but the eye can see color or a can see brightness. That&#8217;s actually two different things the brain does for eyes, for example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what is your point of view character notice in the setting that is relevant to the action moving forward in your story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use their own perception and memory and knowledge, and put in the bare minimum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve told my clients in the past. It&#8217;s on a need-to-know basis. Do they need to know it right now? Would they really be thinking this right now? Then put it in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Otherwise, cut it. It is not relevant to the scene because your vehicle for telling the story is your point of view character and what they notice about their setting, what they know about their setting, what they experienced through through hearing, sight, smell, body experience, either from kinesthetic touch, which is &#8211; touch is actually many, many senses, the pressure of something, the texture of something, for example, and that&#8217;s just two. And there&#8217;s more. And then there&#8217;s also the sense of the body in space. That&#8217;s proprioception.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So those are just a few of the body sensing &#8211; that your body is sensing at any given moment. And what is absolutely necessary to describe right here in this moment?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then going back to your original question, Megan. You said: when do you stop adding ideas to your story?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Write The Messy First Draft, and then Edit<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, can you let yourself write toward that end scene? And put in whatever details you want in the first draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your first draft needs to be messy. Totally messy. Write in all the details that you want. And keep your attention on writing to the end of the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then in revisions is when you want to ask yourself: Is this too much? Is this not enough?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And keep your attention on moving the story forward, moving your character through their conflicts and resolutions, conflicts and resolutions until you get to the end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you&#8217;re writing short stories, like Megan is, then give yourself an actual page restriction. And that will force you to say, well, is this absolutely necessary? Is this detail, absolutely necessary?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If so, keep it in. Take it out just to see what it would be like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What kind of song is your story?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I would say: Your story is like a song.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>What kind of song is it?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it a waltz that has a certain rhythm?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it a fast moving rock song?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is it melodic flute, meditative piece?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think about the rhythm of your story and what kind of song it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is one way I think about how to edit my books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then, make a decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then now edit your story, according to the kind of rhythm and pacing and emotional flow that you want to have, like a song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. I hope that was helpful, Megan. Thank you so much for your question. I really, really appreciate it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are your questions?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your listener has a question for me about editing your science fiction and fantasy novel, let me know. I would love to answer it in a future episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be a guest on the Story Success Clinic<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or come on the show and be a guest. We spend 30 minutes looking at your work or talking about your creative mindset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will absolutely look at a paragraph or two, and we could do some live edits and we can talk about world-building, and we could talk about how do we mix pacing with setting, with character development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So 30-minute Story Success Clinic. Every session is recorded and gets aired as an episode of How To Write The Future podcast. You get more exposure for yourself as a writer, I get to help more writers. It is a win-win situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, everyone. That&#8217;s it for now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So write long and prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT BETH BARANY\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022_02-Beth-Barany-image_2020_06-23-copy-e1666044659719.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24956 size-full alignleft\" title=\"Image of Beth Barany\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022_02-Beth-Barany-image_2020_06-23-copy-e1666044659719.png\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022_02-Beth-Barany-image_2020_06-23-copy-e1666044659719.png 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2022_02-Beth-Barany-image_2020_06-23-copy-e1666044659719-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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\u2019s an award-winning fantasy and science fiction novelist and runs the podcast, \u201cHow To Write The Future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about Beth Barany at these sites:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coaching site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/baranyschooloffiction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School of Fiction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersfunzone.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer\u2019s Fun Zone blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CONNECT<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact Beth: <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/podcast\/#tve-jump-185b4422580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/podcast\/#tve-jump-185b4422580<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email: beth@bethbarany.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bethbarany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bethbarany\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CREDITS<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EDITED WITH DESCRIPT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.descript.com?lmref=_w1WCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.descript.com?lmref=_w1WCA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MUSIC: Uppbeat.io<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DISTRIBUTED BY BUZZSPROUT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/?referrer_id=1994465\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/?referrer_id=1994465<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SHOW PRODUCTION BY Beth Barany<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SHOW NOTES by Kerry-Ann McDade<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more \u201cHow To Write the Future\u201d episodes, go <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019d like to invite Beth onto your podcast, drop her a note <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/contact-beth\/#contactbeth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editing Tips to Help You Avoid Information Overload &#8211; How to Write the Future podcast, episode 70 \u201cStories come alive when they&#8217;re told from the perspective of a character.\u201d In \u201cEpisode 70. 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