{"id":29659,"date":"2025-07-07T01:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=29659"},"modified":"2025-07-07T01:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:45:22","slug":"what-is-creative-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/07\/what-is-creative-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Creative Entrepreneurship?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HTWTF-Episode-160-Blog-Images.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29660 size-full\" title=\"What is Creative Entrepreneurship?\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HTWTF-Episode-160-Blog-Images.png\" alt=\"Image of paint splashing with items amongst \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HTWTF-Episode-160-Blog-Images.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HTWTF-Episode-160-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\/07\/HTWTF-Episode-160-Blog-Images-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29661 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Quote from What is Creative Entrepreneurship? \" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HTWTF-Episode-160-Blog-Images-1.png\" alt=\"Quote from episode What is Creative Entrepreneurship? by Beth Barany\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HTWTF-Episode-160-Blog-Images-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/HTWTF-Episode-160-Blog-Images-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"py-3 text-2xl sm:text-4xl font-semibold\" dir=\"auto\">What is Creative Entrepreneurship? &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 160<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">***<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First principles are really: know how to be creative and know how to get into your creativity.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d &#8211; Beth Barany<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this How To Write the Future episode, called \u201cWhat is Creative Entrepreneurship?,\u201d host Beth Barany gets interviewed about defining creative entrepreneurship and explains the importance of prioritizing creativity over business and why she believes being a creative comes first. Plus, she goes in depth on how we can make it work for us as creative individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Platforms the podcast is available on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/160-what-is-creative-entrepreneurship\/id1641025914?i=1000716070366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/episodes\/17457836-160-what-is-creative-entrepreneurship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/0q8sOfuPdIGULUXIZ7bix4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/5543e0be-7960-48df-9c67-d534905b532b\/how-to-write-the-future-160-what-is-creative-entrepreneurship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JnAYw0G0zH4\" 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\/JnAYw0G0zH4?si=2WakwxyUnqlm9AuQ\" 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\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>FOR CREATIVE WRITING PROFESSIONALS &#8211; BUILD YOUR BUSINESS SERVING WRITERS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sign up to be notified when our training opens and get a short Creative Business Style Quiz to help you create success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bethbarany.com\/apprenticeship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bethbarany.com\/apprenticeship\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Support our work for creatives!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buy me a coffee:<\/span><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>GET SOME FREE WRITING COACHING LIVE ON THE PODCAST<\/b><\/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<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>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\u00a0<\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for episode 160 Writer Business without the Overwhelm<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction to Creative Entrepreneurship\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So Beth,tell us what is creative entrepreneurship?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So yeah, creative entrepreneurship. What is it?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:09] Defining Creative Entrepreneurship\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So a lot of people define creative entrepreneurship in different ways. I guess what&#8217;s important here is the way I define it, so I see being a creative entrepreneur is about being a creative first and an entrepreneur second, which is very unusual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of people don&#8217;t think of it that way, and I break it down that way because when we create something like the actual zone of creating, yes, it may have marketing considerations, but the zone, what do people call it? They call it the zone, right? They call it the flow, being in the flow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I think when you&#8217;re in the flow, you&#8217;re not thinking about the past, you&#8217;re not thinking about the future. You&#8217;re just in the flow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you think about marketing your stuff and reaching the marketplace and reaching your fans and reaching new readers as authors, then now you&#8217;re starting to think about marketing considerations and it takes you outta the flow.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:58] First Principles of Creativity and Entrepreneurship\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Let&#8217;s break it down. I like first principles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So first principles. Where are the first principles?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah. First principles are really, know how to be creative and know how to get into your creativity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then when you&#8217;re in the entrepreneurship space, now think about, How do you talk about what you&#8217;re making? How do you clarify who your audience is? How do you reach your audience? And how do you create a place for them to purchase your material or enjoy your material?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And all of those considerations seem to use a different part of our brain than the creative part. Now, that&#8217;s not to say you can&#8217;t apply your creativity to all those things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, that&#8217;s what I advocate for. Like the same energy that we use to come up with story ideas and create things, let&#8217;s apply that generative and like juicy energy, and focus, often when we&#8217;re in creative space, we&#8217;re super focused. Let&#8217;s apply that to entrepreneurship. I think of being a creative entrepreneur, as being creative first and an entrepreneur second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Great.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[02:06] Importance of Creative Entrepreneurship\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What is the importance for becoming a creative entrepreneur?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sure. It&#8217;s definitely an elective choice. For a lot of writers, and I&#8217;m gonna just speak of writers &#8217;cause that&#8217;s what I know the most. We write to be read. I haven&#8217;t met a single writer who writes novels and other short fiction and all those things because they just wanna keep it to themselves. They want someone to read it, even if it&#8217;s an intimate group of fellow writers or their family, or a thousand of their closest friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You agree with me, you&#8217;re a writer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;ve always been driven by having other people appreciate what you&#8217;ve created, right? What you&#8217;ve written.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah. In fact it\u2019s what keeps me writing is picturing them reading this moment I&#8217;m writing about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah. But a lot of people are stopped from getting their work into the marketplace for fear of criticism, for fear of, even I was super afraid when I was publishing my first book, but I also was driven just like you by that desire to be read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I also remembered being a reader, and I&#8217;ve been an avid reader since I was a child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So why is this important? We tend to think that we have to enter the marketplace a certain way. And there&#8217;s all these rules and there&#8217;s all these ways things have been done. Just like we write stories within a structure of what a story is and within that structure there&#8217;s so much freedom. Even within storytelling. So why can&#8217;t we enter the marketplace in a way that works for us?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I think by talking more about creative entrepreneurship, we can talk about how do we make it work for us?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The principles I&#8217;m talking about actually doesn&#8217;t apply just to being creative people, it applies to anybody. &#8216;Cause I think, if you wanna be in business and you wanna do it your own way, now you&#8217;re applying your creativity, you&#8217;re applying choice and decisions, I kind of see it like an alchemy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;re basically saying, here&#8217;s how I want it to be. Here&#8217;s my ingredients. Now how do I cook this up in the way that would fit my taste buds? To just use a cooking metaphor, veering a little away from alchemy. Does that answer the question about why I care about this issue?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, here&#8217;s the big soapbox thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe that the ability to be creative is a human right and something we&#8217;re all born with. And bringing our creativity, our wild imaginations into doing business is going to serve not only us as authors, and it maybe you&#8217;re a creative writing professional. It&#8217;s gonna serve everybody because there&#8217;s so many different ways to do it. There&#8217;s not one way. So let&#8217;s bring the conversation out. Let&#8217;s be creative, let&#8217;s be playful. I believe we need more examples of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s not one way to sell your services or sell your books. So let&#8217;s play in that space of what else could it be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just like we play in the storytelling space of the kinds of characters and the kinds of stories that we wanna write. That&#8217;s why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So let me ask you this.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[05:05] Steps to Become a Creative Entrepreneur\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What would be the next steps or the first steps for someone to take to become a creative entrepreneur?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yes, very good question. When I work with creative entrepreneurs, and I do, I work with people who wanna be, they wanna be a creative writing professional, like editorial assistant or a virtual assistant to an author or a book coach. Or an editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The very first thing that you need to focus on is your skill set in the chosen field, in the way you wanna help people. You need to get good at that. You need to get specialized training or get lots of experience and do everything you can to get lots of, have your training wheels on for a while and then take off your training wheels. And, there are lots of training, different kinds of training programs for these things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Specifically I know in editing, and being a virtual assistant, and then meet people who are doing what you wanna do or are adjacent to what you wanna do. Like maybe you only know book designers or cover designers. Hang out with them, find out how they do things and just start to network.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I first get professional training, and or lots of experience, network with people in your adjacent fields.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then number three is learn some business skills. Learn how to talk about what you do in the marketplace. Learn how to write a short blurb about what you do, and have a professional bio and decide how you wanna market. Build a mailing list. As you get more refined in what your offer is, offer a freebie. And then look for ways to do a one to many. You show up in front of a group of people, whether you do it online, or in person .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And lastly, or also in conjunction, these are all together, there are some order of this, but also not, it depends on your personality. And in fact, entirely depends on your personality, but you wanna learn how to have some kind of offer, whether you wanna offer small group classes or coaching one-on-one or editing one-on-one or working with a lot of clients or maybe just a few clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s the business model. Who do you serve and how will you earn your money? And at what price point?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there&#8217;s professional development that you need to learn in your skills, but then there&#8217;s also business development. I have been doing one form or another of business development training ever since I started my business 19 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it really never stops in my opinion, and neither does the skillset training in like being a better writer, being a better editor, better teacher, better coach. Those are the things I mostly focus on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Let me ask you this.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[07:50] Overcoming Marketing Fears\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> What can you say to creatives, who, when they hear that they need to market and focus on the business aspect of their creativity, and they just want to shut down, what advice would you give those folks?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That&#8217;s a big one. I would be very, very delicate, or I would say sensitive, to that when people just wanna shut down. It often has nothing to do with their lived experience, although it might have something to do with their upbringing, but it also might have something to do with their ancestry because it has been very difficult, if not impossible, to be an entrepreneur before the 20th century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the 20th century, you had to have some kind of moxie. The economies weren&#8217;t there, there was no social systems. There was no network that supported it unless you were in a guild. And if you&#8217;re in a guild, then you&#8217;re an apprentice and you become a master. And the pathway is very direct or you do what your parents did. Historically and genetically, humans have not been entrepreneurs in the way we can now. So it&#8217;s very scary. So there&#8217;s a lot of fear around that, around being an entrepreneur that we inherit from our families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, marketing is, often got a bad rap because there&#8217;s a lot of negative stereotypes around it. We haven&#8217;t seen any good examples and we have all experienced, we&#8217;ve all had bad experiences of being marketed to or sold to, or people trying to be in our face. But the really interesting thing is we all love buying things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How is that? How is that we love buying things? So in those cases and all those cases where we had a good experience buying something, that was because of marketing. Nine times outta 10, that was because of marketing. Yes, maybe we went out of our way. Oh, I need this thing, I&#8217;m gonna go buy this thing. But then we look at the packaging and we look at the ingredients and we look at the reviews, right? All of that is marketing. So I think it&#8217;s a lack of education, but it&#8217;s also an instinctive thing that we inherit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it does require us to say, I am very scared about marketing and sales, but I wanna learn how to do it. So it&#8217;s just shifting the mindset from yes, I recognize I have all this fear, and maybe you don&#8217;t even know where your fear comes from. Maybe you don&#8217;t even know why you shut down, but if there&#8217;s another part of you that is curious&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m like, I&#8217;m curious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m curious why I react this way. I really wish I didn&#8217;t. I really wish I had comfort here. I had ease here. I really wish I could have the same feeling of creative flow I have in creating my stories in marketing and sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And my challenge is yes, we can, we don&#8217;t necessarily know the pathway, and that&#8217;s the challenge of being a creative who wants to be selling their creative stuff or selling their services that relate to being creative. Is finding a way that&#8217;s in alignment with us and maybe it&#8217;s small. Maybe we start really small and we start to get comfortable with all the bits and pieces and parts and ways of doing things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So yeah, start small. Be gentle with yourself and be curious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I love that. And so it sounds like you&#8217;re saying that, and would you agree with this?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[11:02] Finding Enjoyable Marketing Strategies<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That there are multiple ways of marketing and some of which creatives might actually enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Absolutely. When I&#8217;ve taught writers marketing tools often related to social media, people would cringe around the social media. And then I would say, What do you like to do? And this one author said to me, I love going to bookstores and doing book talks, and going to schools and doing my talks there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m like, that&#8217;s great. Forget the social media, go and do those things. And as soon as I said that, her whole demeanor changed. She got super excited. She&#8217;s like, Ooh, I know what to do and who to call and who to talk to and how to prepare. She knew, it was all natural. So do what&#8217;s natural to you. Do what you love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like you, Ezra, you love making videos, the idea of making images you love, and I just see you light up with that and it&#8217;s so wonderful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then, here&#8217;s the other secret. You don&#8217;t have to do everything. You can delegate. You can ask for help. You could do a trade, you could get a group of buddies and do things together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s really important that we come from our strengths and stay in there, stay in our strengths. And actually, I heard someone today say it&#8217;s not just your strengths. No, be in your zone of genius.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I believe there is genius even in how we can market. We may think we have no genius there, but actually we do. It&#8217;s just a matter of skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[12:26] Conclusion and Final Thoughts\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>EZRA BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thank you for sharing with us your wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Thank you. And that&#8217;s a wrap<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/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;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>Need instructions on how to leave a review?<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/leave-a-podcast-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Support our work for creatives: leave a tip: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/bethbarany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/bethbarany<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT BETH BARANY\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1692481023683.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27411 size-full alignleft\" title=\"beth Barany\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1692481023683.png\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/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. 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