{"id":29716,"date":"2025-08-11T09:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=29716"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:04:30","slug":"woo-woo-and-fiction-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/11\/woo-woo-and-fiction-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Woo-Woo and Fiction Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HTWTF-Episode-165-Blog-Images.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29717 size-full\" title=\"Woo-Woo and Fiction Writing\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HTWTF-Episode-165-Blog-Images.png\" alt=\"Image of person opening a book for Woo-woo and Fiction Writing\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HTWTF-Episode-165-Blog-Images.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HTWTF-Episode-165-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\/08\/HTWTF-Episode-164-Blog-Images-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29709 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HTWTF-Episode-164-Blog-Images-1.png\" alt=\"Quote by Beth Barany for How To Write the Future episode\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HTWTF-Episode-164-Blog-Images-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HTWTF-Episode-164-Blog-Images-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woo-Woo and Fiction Writing &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 165<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDo you like to daydream? I love to daydream. I&#8217;ve always loved to daydream ever since I was a child and when I was a child, I wished I was magic.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Beth Barany<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this episode of How To Write the Future, host Beth Barany discusses \u201cWoo-Woo and Fiction Writing\u201d by sharing her \u201cwoo-woo\u201d interests, her backstory from pre-med to fiction, and the magic of writing. Beth also shares the resources she uses to inspire the characters in her stories, and one of her own resources, the World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers, which is available for listeners to download.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Platforms the podcast is available on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/165-woo-woo-and-fiction-writing\/id1641025914?i=1000721472923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/episodes\/17586054-165-woo-woo-and-fiction-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/6j8POggMbJlKF5zrm8VzfN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/7b073a85-2d0f-40c0-86a5-1b9279264e39\/how-to-write-the-future-165-woo-woo-and-fiction-writing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0WRm17dXHrk?si=2rb0MN_vx7OrzkEz\" 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\/0WRm17dXHrk?si=zkKiDklL4vTM7jwA\" 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><b>Related Episode: What if\u2026 and Your Brain<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/07\/18-what-if-and-your-brain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/07\/18-what-if-and-your-brain\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\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 165 Woo-Woo and Fiction Writing<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Introduction and Childhood Daydreams\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you like to daydream? I love to daydream. I&#8217;ve always loved to daydream ever since I was a child and when I was a child, I wished I was magic. That was my ardent wish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How about you? What did you wish for when you were a child?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:18] Meet Beth Barany\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hi everyone. I&#8217;m Beth Barany. I run How to Write The Future Podcast. I am a science fiction and fantasy novelist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can see some of the books behind me. Also a writing teacher and a creativity coach with a specialty in and all things woo-woo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Woo-woo!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:41] Growing Up in a Commune<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am from Northern California. I am the child of hippies. I grew up in what you would call a commune, but really also a cult. I&#8217;m no longer part of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I left, I wasn&#8217;t, the children weren&#8217;t really a part of it. They never got to elect to be in it, all the adults, all the parents were in it. But what that gave me was, hearing the adults talk about humans, psychology, philosophy, religion. Both of my parents were very interested in these things, cross-cultural ideas from other cultures, ideas from other times and places, fairytales, folklore, mythology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All these things were around me when I was a child. And I was deeply interested in folklore and fairytales and read a ton of them. So, yeah, I really wished to be magic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[01:30] Exploring Woo-Woo Interests\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Okay, so today I wanted to do an episode about all things woo-woo, all things woo-woo. I dunno how to say that. All things woo-woo. No. All the things that used to be called New Age, I&#8217;m not sure what they&#8217;re called now, a little bit about my interests, how I use them as a writer, how I&#8217;ve seen others use these tools as writers, and a few tips for you.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[01:54] Astrology, Tarot, and NLP<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, I feel like I need to address the fact that dichotomy, on the one hand, I&#8217;ve been very interested in things and let&#8217;s be specific, astrology, tarot, numerology, oracle cards, human design, and some other things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To me, they felt like ways to get to know myself. And I started getting into astrology and tarot when I was about 20 and started learning how to read tarot cards at age 22. I studied at the Berkeley Psychic Institute for a year, did their clairvoyant training program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wanted to understand how I was wired and how I operated, but also how other people were wired and how they operate. And to that end, I went and studied NLP at NLP Marin and learned a lot of great tools for helping me understand how to get onto your map, how to see through the words you say and how you move and the expression on your face, what might be going on inside. And then to ask questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was always very good at asking questions, but then this gave me some more entry points into how to ask more questions, to try and understand how the person in front of me is wired.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And this is great. This comes in handy as a writing teacher and a coach really helps me do what I love to do, what I was already inclined to do because of my own makeup, which is really get to understand and get to know another person, and help them be a better writer. And help them really dive deep into their creative writing practice and really harness your innate strengths and skills and interests and passions, and turn that into a writing practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s what I did for myself. It&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve done for hundreds of writers and what I could do for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[03:39] From Pre-Med to Writing<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know there&#8217;s that side of me, and then there&#8217;s this other side of me that wanted to be a doctor since I was a very little girl. Actually, my mom says I wanted to be a nurse, but she&#8217;s like, you know, girls can be doctors too. And I was probably six years old and I&#8217;m like, okay, I&#8217;ll be a doctor. I think that stems from two things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One, I was very familiar with the hospital setting, having been born premature, been an incubator the first two months of my life, born with fingers that are different that you might see flying around, and also curious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, there&#8217;s a third element.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So very familiar and comfortable with the hospital setting, deeply curious about how the human body works. And number three, wanting to help people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast forward to today, I&#8217;m not a doctor, obviously. I decided not to be a doctor when I turned 19. I dropped outta pre-med at U.C. Berkeley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m like, ah, this isn&#8217;t for me, pivoted into the social sciences. But I&#8217;ve always retained my interest in science and now I write science fiction and fantasy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And to me, being curious about the world and having wonderment, and also being in awe about the world, to me is connected to science, but it&#8217;s also connected to this desire to be magical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when I started keying into, learning a whole bunch of things about being psychic, which was, we can talk about what I really think that is later. And also learning about NLP and also learning about other modalities, like other healing modalities in other cultures, that I studied in college, through a beautiful class, called Medical Anthropology offered by Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Just fabulous class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And also learning about family systems, family constellations, and having all kinds of experiences. I did do a shamanic journey when I was 19. That was amazing. No drugs, just drumming. It was fabulous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All that to say, as I grew older, I started to realize that magic is all around us.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[05:44] The Magic of Writing<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it&#8217;s in how, it&#8217;s in how you perceive, it&#8217;s in how you think. And I&#8217;ve learned, the more I gained in strength and confidence and skill and practice as a novelist, the more I realized that art is magic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like the ability to sit down and create sentences, put &#8217;em together, and make a story and hand it to someone else, and they get to go there in their imagination. That&#8217;s incredible. That&#8217;s magic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s also practical. It&#8217;s also technique. It&#8217;s also skill. It&#8217;s also practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And anyone who wants to learn how to be a novelist, I believe can be. Doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s easy. Believe me. Doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s easy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[06:22] Using Oracle Cards for Writing<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I use oracle cards, a kind of oracle cards when I am stuck with my fiction. I&#8217;m gonna show you. I know, I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve mentioned these in a previous episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the Mythulu deck and I bought all these cards. So wonderful. They&#8217;re all different colors. We&#8217;ve got, so here&#8217;s just one of &#8217;em, there&#8217;s all these different sets and they&#8217;re all just incredible art. Just beautiful art. Ooh, speaking of magic. So black is element. Say you wanna brainstorm an element for your story, and you can pick one of the element section.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I picked magic. There&#8217;s art and words. It&#8217;s just beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So a word about oracle cards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we&#8217;re stuck in our writing or revisions, we might look out the window and something we see or hear might trigger something inside of us. And then we get an idea. This is one reason why writers love to write at cafes. I do. I love to write and work at cafes &#8217;cause if I&#8217;m stuck I can look up, look around, hear something, notice something, and it gives me an idea. That is the same function of this Mythulu deck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can use any deck. You can use any system. You don&#8217;t even have to use cards, right? You could just look up and look around you. Or you could even go to the bookshelf pointing over there &#8217;cause here&#8217;s my bookshelf, one of many in this apartment. And open up, read a line and be inspired.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[07:54] Creative Tools and Resources<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, so this is a bit about how the woo-woo can help you as a novelist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And even as I was sharing this with my husband today and talking about astrology in brief, he&#8217;s like, ooh, I could design an astrology system for my story world, for a story world. And then the characters could talk about it and say, oh, he&#8217;s the justinian type, or he&#8217;s the gabbigaba type, and that&#8217;s what it means to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So you could come up with your own astrology typing system and use it within your story world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Archetype systems, they use the Greek and Roman gods. Yeah, there&#8217;s so many options and I know people who&#8217;ve created their own archetype systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All that to say, yeah, I am deeply into using these as tools. I don&#8217;t use them as belief systems. I use them as tools.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[08:45] What do I believe?\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do I believe? Ultimately, I believe in creativity. I believe in the power of creativity and what that means is, I&#8217;m curious, I&#8217;m wondering, I&#8217;m asking questions and I&#8217;m asking <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what if<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and including the question What if it was another way? What way would that be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Questions are so powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alright, that&#8217;s some food for thought for you this week. I hope that it inspires you to play around with divination systems and other astrology, human design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What kind of system do you use to, to help you build characters, build your story worlds?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;d be so great to hear. Let me know. And if you have any questions about how to use these tools in more depth, there&#8217;s lots of resources out there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[09:28] Conclusion and Call to Action\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, call to action for you all this week. I want to encourage you to sign up for the World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need help with your world building, if you wanna create your own divinity system or astrology, or typing or numerology. I encourage you to do so, and this guidebook can get you started. So sign up for that. The link is in the show notes. Check out the World Building Guide for Fiction Writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, everyone. That&#8217;s it for this week, Write long and Prosper. That&#8217;s a wrap.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here:\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><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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT BETH BARANY<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1701116328224.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27766 size-full\" title=\"Beth Barany\" 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\" \/><\/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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