{"id":29631,"date":"2025-06-16T10:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=29631"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:31:45","slug":"how-to-craft-ai-and-robot-characters-in-your-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/16\/how-to-craft-ai-and-robot-characters-in-your-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Craft AI and Robot Characters in Your Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HTWTF-Episode-157-Blog-Images.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29632 size-full\" title=\"Image of Beth Barany and Ezra Barany\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HTWTF-Episode-157-Blog-Images.png\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany and Ezra Barany for How To Write the Future podcast\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HTWTF-Episode-157-Blog-Images.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HTWTF-Episode-157-Blog-Images-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HTWTF-Episode-157-Blog-Images-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29633 size-full\" title=\"Beth Barany quote from How to Craft AI and Robot Characters in Your Fiction\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HTWTF-Episode-157-Blog-Images-1.png\" alt=\"Beth Barany quote from How to Craft AI and Robot Characters in Your Fiction\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HTWTF-Episode-157-Blog-Images-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/HTWTF-Episode-157-Blog-Images-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How to Craft AI and Robot Characters in Your Fiction &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 157<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I haven&#8217;t yet pulled in any ethical or moral dilemmas that would be interesting, maybe in a future story.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d &#8211; Beth Barany<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u201cHow to Craft AI and Robot Characters in Your Fiction,\u201d Beth Barany discusses how to create compelling AI and robot characters with unique traits to engage readers. She is joined by her husband, Ezra Barany, also an author and writing teacher, and together they share the benefits of joining their mastermind program for science fiction and fantasy writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content Warning: brief mention of suicide<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Platforms the podcast is available on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/157-how-to-craft-ai-and-robot-characters-in-your-fiction\/id1641025914?i=1000713060044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/episodes\/17338163-157-how-to-craft-ai-and-robot-characters-in-your-fiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3a6Dx5fBbJZFc1hekSc5jc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/8f7ae83f-e482-4dc2-b9cd-96cb2c087437\/how-to-write-the-future-157-how-to-craft-ai-and-robot-characters-in-your-fiction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7Ql34s7rCOM?si=cUunEv3siQqJ4-4f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Ql34s7rCOM?si=cUunEv3siQqJ4-4f\" 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><b>RESOURCES<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Support our work for creatives! Buy me a coffee:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/bethbarany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/bethbarany<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>GET HELP WITH YOUR WORLD BUILDING &#8211; START HERE<\/b><\/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 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Write The Future<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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 I figure out 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><b>ABOUT EZRA BARANY<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EZRA-BARANY_2023_300px_01-1.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-29427 alignleft\" title=\"Image of Ezra Barany\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EZRA-BARANY_2023_300px_01-1.webp\" alt=\"Image of Ezra Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EZRA-BARANY_2023_300px_01-1.webp 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/EZRA-BARANY_2023_300px_01-1-80x80.webp 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ezra Barany loves riveting readers with thrillers, but by order of the Department of Motor Vehicles he must place a warning on every book cover, \u201cDo not read while driving.\u201d His first two books in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Torah Codes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> series were award-winning international bestsellers. The second two books in the 4-book series wowed readers too! In his free time, he has eye-opening discussions on the art of writing novels with his wife and book coach Beth Barany. A high school physics teacher, Ezra lives in Oakland with his beloved wife and two cats working on the next book in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Torah Codes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> series. Ezra, not the cats. For a free short story in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Torah Codes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> series, \u201cThe Mourner\u2019s Kaddish,\u201d do please go to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetorahcodes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.thetorahcodes.com\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for episode 157 &#8211; AI and Robot Characters in Fiction<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction and Hosts<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hey everyone. Welcome back to, or welcome to How to Write the Future. I&#8217;m your host Beth Barany, and next to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I am Ezra Barany\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Is my husband, Ezra Barany. We are both writers. I&#8217;m a creativity coach for writers and editor, and Ezra and I teach science fiction and fantasy writers how to take their manuscript to publication. I&#8217;ll tell you a little bit more about that later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:25] Today&#8217;s Topic: AI and Robot Characters<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Today, we have a special topic for you on AI and robot characters in fiction. We did a poll recently, and this was one of the most favorite topics chosen. So Ezra&#8217;s gonna ask me questions, I&#8217;m gonna answer them, and stay tuned to a little bit more about how we work with writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;ll talk to you about that at the end. All right, Ezra, take it away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:46] Creating Compelling Robot Characters<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great, so the first question is you know how you wake up and you find out you&#8217;re a robot, and then you&#8217;re like, I really want to tell my story as a robot. How can you, now that you&#8217;re a robot, convey that experience in a compelling way?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Are robots compelling? Are AI characters compelling? How can you do that?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah, what a great question. So I read a novel recently that did this beautifully. It&#8217;s called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Activation Degradation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Marina J. Lostetter. Oh my God. It was so amazing. So the main character is a robot. The entire story is told from this automaton, this robot&#8217;s perspective. And what she did so beautifully is she gave this robot character feelings, a goal, a very clear goal, very clear conflicts impeding that goal, the ability to learn, and the ability to notice how they were different from the other robots around them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so their goal competed, their personal goal, like they had a programming that seemed to compete with some stuff happening around them, which created the amazing conflicts in the story. And because they also had the ability to learn when they got new information that contradicted the old information,then the character had room to grow and make choices and change.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The robot had many of the characteristics that we humans have -to learn, grow, and change, and to have a goal and to have agency to deal with the conflicts. Designing a robot character is no different than designing a human character, in my opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Except with a robot, you&#8217;re gonna have probably very strict programming that is gonna be explicit usually to, to the robot themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that&#8217;s my guess. And that seems to be how this author did it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Very cool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I also wanna bring up another example, which is in, they did it in the Han Solo movie in, Star Wars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Uhhuh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And it&#8217;s also in the Andor series as well where the robots get to have more of a voice. They want things, and that puts them in conflict with other people. Uh, and, and now we have a character who may be very good, like way better than a human ever could be at certain things, but they still have individual agency and individual desires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I think that&#8217;s what makes these robots really interesting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hmm, That&#8217;s wonderful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[03:11] Unique Traits of AI Characters<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What makes an AI character feel more authentic instead of like just a human shaped being with mechanical parts? Unique traits and contradictions?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah. Oh, okay. I didn&#8217;t really talk about the unique traits. So yeah. One of the things that makes an AI character, which we can differentiate from a robot, I&#8217;d like to talk about AI versus robot in a second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mmm, okay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> But having unique traits. I&#8217;m thinking of this robot in Han Solo. She wanted her individual rights and she did some things that made her stand out oh, there&#8217;s some robots in The Clone wars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roger, Roger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mm-hmm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And say, right, and, and like, they all seem the same, but what makes the robot I&#8217;m thinking of, and I wish I could remember her name in Han Solo, is that she has a unique voice. She speaks differently than, she&#8217;s not just saying, being a robot, we call it, you know, think of C3PO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And C3POs had a personality. Now we didn&#8217;t get to know other droids, like C3PO in Star Wars, but C3PO had such a certain kind of humanity, a certain attitude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what is gonna make your robot unique is gonna be attitude, the way they respond and interact. Maybe they do some things that humans find unusual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe they have a certain programming, certain protocols that are going to surprise the humans, and so surprise us. That&#8217;s one of the things that also make us remember these creatures, these creatures, these robots.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah. That&#8217;s really good. And I love that advice of surprise. &#8216;Cause I, I did write up a, an AI robot character in one of my stories and she was just supposed to do the chores and do all the household tasks. But she became so sad with the way she was treated, that she wrote a poem about her sadness expressing herself, and she took her own life, so to speak, and that shocked the owner, if we can call him that, &#8217;cause he was completely oblivious to what she was feeling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So she had feelings and she had yearnings then that, that were in addition to her programming.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Mm-hmm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So whoever created the robot must have put in the ability for her to evolve in that way. If she wasn&#8217;t already programmed in that way. I don&#8217;t know how you did that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> How you decided that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What happens if you give a robot the ability to have feelings? I know some people have written stories like that and then what? There&#8217;s a lot of unpredictability about that, just like in humans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So what if the robot&#8217;s feelings goes against their initial programming then what? Actually I read a fabulous series. You&#8217;re told that the main character is a robot. But she is way more complex than that. It&#8217;s like she doesn&#8217;t really know who she is. Except she knows that she is not alive. Okay, here we go.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY<\/b><b><i>:<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Astra<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Astra<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Idari. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is one of the books, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beyond the Reach.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I think this is the latest book and the author is Darby Harn. And what&#8217;s so wonderful about this series is the character starts off thinking that she is a robot and, but one of the biggest challenges that she&#8217;s facing is that her memory is somehow full. So every night she gets downloaded into the ship, she&#8217;s part of the ship, or she&#8217;s in communication with the ship. And so she doesn&#8217;t know what she&#8217;s forgotten and she doesn&#8217;t know how many times she&#8217;s learned something and it causes all kinds of interesting problems for her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that&#8217;s just one of the many intriguing things about this character\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That&#8217;s very cool\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Very, yeah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[07:03] Ethical Implications of AI Consciousness<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That kind of goes into how can you explore the ethical implications of AI consciousness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeah, that&#8217;s a huge conversation because we have to, we&#8217;re making some assumptions about what are ethics and what are the morals of your story world and how does the culture view the robot? And so like in your story where the robot was so sad, it&#8217;s as if maybe it was a culture where robots having feelings, and having any other desires beyond doing their job, were like maybe not acknowledged, so I think dealing with ethical and moral considerations, you have to establish what those are in your story world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then you need to give your robot reason to question that or be in conflict with that, maybe if you, if that&#8217;s something you wanna explore in your stories. Whatever implications are gonna be are gonna be dependent on the morals and ethics of your story world. So establish that first, and then decide how is your AI or robot going to conflict or enhance, or be on one side or the other of that dilemma, whatever the dilemma is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That&#8217;s great.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[08:11] AI in the Janey McCallister Mystery Series<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Let&#8217;s talk real briefly about AI. I wanna talk about AI in a character, &#8216; cause I have that in my Janey McCallister mystery series. I have four books out currently on Janey, and her solving mysteries, and she has an AI in her head. I&#8217;ve made the decision way back in 2016 when I first started developing this series, is that this AI would be like an assistant and wouldn&#8217;t have any, wouldn&#8217;t go against, its programming, her programming. But she has a personality. She helps Janey speed up her job but she doesn&#8217;t always work as intended, and of course that can cause some problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I haven&#8217;t yet pulled in any ethical or moral dilemmas that would be interesting, maybe in a future story. So thanks for that idea. Uh. Awesome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[08:57] Conclusion and Contact Information<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That&#8217;s it today on AI and robot characters and fiction. If you have any other questions, let me know. You can contact me through how to write the future.com or tag me at Beth Barany on the socials or leave a comment on YouTube where you found this episode or on the blog post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[09:15] Mastermind Program for Writers<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Today I wanna share if you are interested in working with Ezra and I, we have a group mastermind program for science fiction and fantasy writers. We meet twice a month. Ezra and I teach with them. We help people become better writers, we help you with craft, we help you with marketing. We help you with get ready for the beta readers, get ready to publish. We talk about: how do you design a cover? How do you write a marketing blurb? And what is a really good scene?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It&#8217;s so awesome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It&#8217;s so fun. It&#8217;s an intimate group. We have room for one or two more people. If this is for you, check it out at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/coaching.bethbarany.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">coaching.BethBarany.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Reach out if you&#8217;d like to chat with me and see if that&#8217;s a good fit for you. We are only taking a few writers in this coming season, and you do have to have finished your first draft, so get writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that&#8217;s it everyone, write long and prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? 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