{"id":28237,"date":"2024-04-08T04:14:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=28237"},"modified":"2024-04-08T04:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T11:14:10","slug":"know-yourself-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/08\/know-yourself-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Yourself (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28238 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Episode-95-Blog-Images.png\" alt=\"Know Yourself \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Episode-95-Blog-Images.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Episode-95-Blog-Images-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28239 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Episode-95-Blog-Images-1.png\" alt=\"Know Yourself\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Episode-95-Blog-Images-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Episode-95-Blog-Images-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Know Yourself (Part 4\/4) &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 95<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEditing is challenging. So whenever you get lost, feel overwhelmed, confused, just in a state about the editing process, come back to your goal, motivation, conflict about why you write.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cKnow Yourself\u201d In episode 95 of the How To Write the Future podcast, Beth Barany explains the importance of knowing why you write, focusing on your strengths, and trusting your creative process including why you study sentence structure and knowing which grammar rules to break when. (Part 4 of 4: Transform Your Novel with These 7 Editing Tips for Bestselling Success)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platforms The podcast is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/95-know-yourself-part-4-of-4\/id1641025914?i=1000651747521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/14841082-95-know-yourself-part-4-of-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3WoSJd7YTQPJsn2sjdhP43\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/episode\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F2012061%2F14841082-95-know-yourself-part-4-of-4.mp3&amp;podcastId=4025186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/40515c1f-e9c1-4b3f-b9e6-9fa47023894f\/how-to-write-the-future-95-know-yourself-part-4-of-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a> |<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yn08YF90Pvo?si=Tfg-qogYAGIYX-mM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yn08YF90Pvo?si=Tfg-qogYAGIYX-mM\" 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\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>12-month Group Mastermind Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers &#8211; open for enrollment:<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/coaching.bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/coaching.bethbarany.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers:<\/b><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<p><b>Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic with Beth Barany:<\/b><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><b>Get support for your fiction writing by a novelist and writing teacher and coach. Schedule an exploratory call here and see if Beth can support you today:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/discovery-call\/<\/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 95 &#8211; Know Yourself <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Transform Your Novel with These 7 Editing Tips for Bestselling Success, part 4 of 4)<\/span><\/i><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone, Beth Barany here for how to write the future podcast. I&#8217;m your host and your guide, a science fiction and fantasy writer. Also a creativity coach and writing teacher. Today I am giving you the fourth part of this four-part series on how to transform your novel with seven editing tips for best-selling success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you&#8217;re just coming in for the first time, go ahead and check the three previous episodes all lined up right before this one. And I hope you enjoy. So today I&#8217;m going to just dive right in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m going to do numbers five, six, and seven. So excited to bring you these tips. All right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And a little bit about How To Write The Future podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;re a podcast for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive, optimistic stories because I believe that what we vision and what we write, we help make it so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, this podcast is to help you bring your stories powerfully out into the world, your unique stories that speak from your heart to your reader&#8217;s heart. Because I believe that your vision of reality through your science fiction and fantasy story is just as valid as anyone else&#8217;s and deserves to be out in the world and in the hands of readers. All right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So today I want to talk about my, five, six, and seven points. Just to recap into Wet Your Whistle, listen to the three previous episodes, I talked a little bit about my stance on editing, which is basically we write for ourselves and we edit for our readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I talked about what does it take to be a bestseller, my own take on that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The importance of being an avid reader, knowing your genre, knowing your characters, and today. I&#8217;m going to talk about knowing yourself. Gathering your community. And the importance of words are your toolkit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, let&#8217;s dive in. Now, if you are on video, you&#8217;ll be able to see some pretty slides. So let&#8217;s next talk about the importance of knowing yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, and I want to let you know that at the end, there&#8217;s a special invitation for you if you&#8217;d like to work with me and with and join us in editing your manuscript. And as we are in the fourth of this cycle, the fourth of four, I want to let you know that I have been doing this podcast while sitting on my couch, because my cat Rocket is on my lap. And he&#8217;s not happy when I&#8217;m sitting at my desk.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The importance of knowing yourself &#8211; why you write\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So point 5, know yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think it is so important to know why you write in general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And sometimes the answer is: I don&#8217;t know. And sometimes the answer is: I have something to say. And sometimes the answer is: all over the place and can change from day to day. So I really encourage you to spend time journaling on why you write. And I put GMC in parentheses here on the slide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that stands for goal motivation and conflict. Just as much as we want to know our characters, goals, motivations, and conflicts. And by the way, that comes from Deb Dixon&#8217;s book called Goal, Motivation and Conflict. I use it as a rubric to help me all the time when I&#8217;m not sure where to begin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I start with goal, motivation, conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So know why you write.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What&#8217;s important about this book?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second. Why this book? What is important to you about this book? Editing is challenging. So whenever you get lost, feel overwhelmed, confused, just in a state about the editing process, come back to your goal, motivation, conflict about why you write. And also why this book, why is this book important to you? Even if it&#8217;s, I don&#8217;t know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it&#8217;s important. That&#8217;s great too. Go for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why this book now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, why now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes we have an an undefinable urge to be working on this book and no other project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that&#8217;s okay. It&#8217;s important to recognize that now it is important to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengths, Blessings, Gifts<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also focus on your strengths, your blessings, and your gifts. What has been given to you from your upbringing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What has been given to you from your education, from the education that you have done as an adult?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are the blessings that you&#8217;ve been born with? What are the gifts that you have gathered together to be able to write your story now?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trust Your Creative Process\/Habits\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, trust your creative process and develop good habits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write when is the best time for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People talk about writing first thing in the morning. That may not work for you. It doesn&#8217;t work for me. I&#8217;m not quite awake yet. I&#8217;d like to write around lunchtime. I know some writers love to write late at night. Others who write early in the morning. Some writers like my husband, Ezra, he can write any time of day. That&#8217;s so awesome.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commitment<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also your commitment. How committed are you to this project?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Committed enough to keep at it even when the end seems so far away? Committed enough to just keep going one step in front of the other?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be honest with yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is your commitment? So this is point 5: Know yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And of course, I have so much more to say on this. I&#8217;m a coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have a lot to say. So if you are interested in exploring this deeper, reach out. Let me know.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A very important part of being successful author is having community. This is where I see a lot of writers stumble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have beta readers, critique partners, develop a reader&#8217;s list. Gather your colleagues, your peers. Be paying attention to who&#8217;s a fan of your work and also acknowledge supporters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friends and family who support you no matter what.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We teach you how to gather all of these in our 12-month group coaching program that I will tell you about in a moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I just want to say there are a lot of online places you can find beta readers and critique partners. I encourage you to start a mailing list, an official mailing list as soon as you&#8217;re ready and find your colleagues and your peers, because really we may write alone, but we succeed together.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Words! Our Toolkit!\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And lastly, but certainly not least- leastly- words are your toolkit. They&#8217;re my toolkit. We&#8217;re writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s what we do. We use words.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be A Word Geek\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Be a word geek. Look up words all the time. I do. Look up derivations. Almost every day, I&#8217;m looking at words and certainly, when I&#8217;m actively editing the manuscript, I am looking up words.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Study Sentence Structure\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Study sentence structure from simple sentence structure to complex sentence structure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compound sentences. Modifiers, all of it. Learn how sentences are put together. It&#8217;s fascinating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And we go deep into this in our 12-month mastermind group.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know Grammar Rules to Break Them\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also know grammar rules so that you can break them. And if an editor or a beta reader says to you, oh, you can&#8217;t do that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And you can say, sure. I know there&#8217;s the rule over here and know what the rule is say, but I&#8217;m doing it this way because this is how my character talks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So don&#8217;t let anyone tell you, you have to follow the rules. We&#8217;re creative writers. We get to break the rules but know why you&#8217;re doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So study those grammar rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increase your Vocabulary &#8211; VAKOG\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then lastly, increase your vocabulary. I cannot tell you how many times I&#8217;ve seen manuscripts that have limited vocabulary is okay. But especially for sensory details, it really pays to have more words for visuals, auditory, kinesthetic olfactory, and gustatory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me give you a breakdown of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>V is for visual: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what we see. <\/span><b>A is for auditory:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> what we hear. <\/span><b>K is for kinesthetic. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It includes it&#8217;s the body sensations. But also we&#8217;re going to include the feelings, the emotions in there. <\/span><b>O is for olfactory,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is smell. And <\/span><b>G is for gustatory<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is taste. Increase your vocabulary here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn how to say more than just run. That was my, one of my things. My heroine, Henrietta The Dragon Slayer, she ran everywhere. Oh my goodness. Someone pointed out to me in early days, they said, there are more words for run. Use a thesaurus. And that was a big aha for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m like, oh, of course. And then I started pay attention that you don&#8217;t always have to use an action movement verb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can talk about the emotion of how someone goes from place to place. I don&#8217;t have to say run or hop or skip or stride. I could say rushed or hurried or meandered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, words are our toolkit.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let&#8217;s Recap\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So those are my seven tips for today for the series I want to invite you to. Let me go over those seven tips since we are at the end here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I talked about in this four-part series, what does it take to be a best seller? Being an avid reader. Knowing your genre, know your characters, know yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today I specifically talked about knowing yourself. Gathering your community and how words are our toolkit. And now here is my special offer and invitation to you. If you would like support, in a small intimate group. And you&#8217;re a science fiction, fantasy writer. And you have finished that first draft, which by the way, congratulations. Oh my gosh. I totally know how amazing that is. Then you&#8217;re invited to come join our 12-month group mastermind to unleash your story&#8217;s potential. Transform your manuscript into a publish-ready masterpiece. In our 12-month group mastermind program, we teach and coach you to develop a discerning eye.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you can do story edits and line edits in your own way, on your own story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, there is an option to have one-on-one support with me in addition to the group where I will help you and teach you how to do story, or developmental edits and how to do line editing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent van Gogh said this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being a creative, being an artist is about courage because we need our courage in addition to curiosity. compassion connection. And I&#8217;m sure a whole host of other things because creativity is our superpower. And with the power of the imagination, we can remake our stories in our edits. We can remake our lives and we can also remake our world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So once again, special offer. Reach out to me, email me, or sign up for a discussion if you would like to join our 12-month group coaching program and see if it&#8217;s right for you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So specifically the invitation is to come join us for the 12-month group coaching program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you&#8217;re not sure if it&#8217;s right for you, please reach out and email me and we can set up a time to talk or go ahead and schedule a time using my scheduler tool. We look forward to having you in our program, we have spots three more spots right now, and I&#8217;ll have one spot if you want to work just one-on-one with me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right. That&#8217;s it for this week, everyone. Please like and subscribe wherever you listen to this podcast, and if you&#8217;re on YouTube, same thing, like, and subscribe. Also, if you find this material really useful and you think, a friend of yours would also please, please, pass it on to your friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If everyone who listened just passed on this podcast who a friend they think would like then, wow, my reach would like double overnight. That would be amazing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, everyone. So take care. Write your stories and 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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [H3]<\/span><\/h3>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT BETH BARANY\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27766 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1701116328224.webp\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/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. 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