{"id":30823,"date":"2026-09-07T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=30823"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:00:13","slug":"back-to-school-vibes-for-writers-how-to-write-the-future-podcast-ep-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/07\/back-to-school-vibes-for-writers-how-to-write-the-future-podcast-ep-221\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To School Vibes for Writers | How To Write the Future podcast, Ep 221"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HTWTF-Episode-221-Blog-Images.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-30824 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Back to School Vibes for Writers\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HTWTF-Episode-221-Blog-Images.png\" alt=\"Image of green chalkboard for Back to School Vibes for Writers\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HTWTF-Episode-221-Blog-Images.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HTWTF-Episode-221-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\/2026\/09\/HTWTF-Episode-221-Blog-Images-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-30825 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"Quote from Back to School Vibes for Writers\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HTWTF-Episode-221-Blog-Images-1.png\" alt=\"Quote from Back to School Vibes for Writers\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HTWTF-Episode-221-Blog-Images-1.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/HTWTF-Episode-221-Blog-Images-1-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back To School Vibes for Writers \u2013 How To Write the Future podcast, episode 220<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was a very good student, and I loved learning, and I love going back to school. And now that I&#8217;m not in school, I&#8217;m just learning all the time, and I&#8217;m following my nose. I&#8217;m following what&#8217;s interesting to me. So I hope you will do the same.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Beth Barany\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled \u201cBack To School Vibes for Writers\u201d host Beth Barany shares some back to school tips for your writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From where you can get started and learn from today, to recognizing you\u2019re learning in everything you do. Beth also encourages you to pick a fall focus and explains how our understanding of history is not fixed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Platforms the podcast is available on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/how-to-write-the-future\/id1641025914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5GiF3n6iAryRIJgLiDL8PW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7oJAHBPfh-A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RESOURCES<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Support the podcast! <\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get the workbook: <\/span><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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join the Edit Lab! <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bethbarany.com\/editlab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/bethbarany.com\/editlab<\/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>Transcript for episode 221 &#8211; Back To School Vibes for Writers<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back to School Vibes\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><b>BETH BARANY:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back to school energy. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m feeling. Hi, everyone. Beth Barany here with How to Write the Future podcast. I&#8217;m a science fiction and fantasy writer who&#8217;s passionate about helping other science fiction and fantasy writers, and I run this podcast because I really do believe we can write the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me give you some tips on that for studying, for back to school study<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:24] Writers Keep Learning<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So there are two things, maybe more than two, that are top of mind for me as I think of back to school.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One, I think of creating, writing, producing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And two, I think of study. What can I study? What can I learn?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, as a writer, I highly encourage you to be always learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I usually probably don&#8217;t need to even encourage you. You&#8217;re listening to this podcast, so you love learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[00:49] Where to Learn Today\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where do you go for your learning?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These days, it&#8217;s limitless, right? We&#8217;ve got the AI tools, the LLMs, we&#8217;ve got the social media, and we&#8217;ve got YouTube.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love, love, love watching science videos on YouTube, but not just science; history, geography, geology is one of the sciences. Uh, I&#8217;m very interested in archeology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And yes, I, I can see current events are happening, but I&#8217;m mostly going to YouTube for the learning. I like to understand economics. I wanna understand the history of different parts of the world. I&#8217;m very inspired by those things.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[01:28] Where do you go to get your learning?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where do you go to get your learning?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also read books. I&#8217;m looking around me at, at the books I have. I read nonfiction books. I also read tons and tons of articles online, people&#8217;s newsletters. Substack, I&#8217;m getting deeply into Substack. A lot of people I know have newsletters on Substack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hint, hint, if you&#8217;re a novelist, you can start your newsletter on Substac<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">k.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[01:52] Pick a Fall Focus\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is one thing that you would like to learn this fall? It&#8217;s the fall up here in the Northern Hemisphere and, and in the Southern Hemisphere, it&#8217;s what? Spring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you wanna learn from September to December?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was a very good student, and I loved learning, and I love going back to school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And now that I&#8217;m not in school, I&#8217;m just learning all the time, and I&#8217;m following my nose. I&#8217;m following what&#8217;s interesting to me. So I hope you will do the same.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[02:23] Love Learning from Others\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love learning from other people. So, I would love to know what are you learning this, this semester? The, from September to December this fall. I&#8217;m in the Northern Hemisphere, I&#8217;m gonna say this fall. What would you like to be learning, and what are you a little bit scared to learn, but maybe you could spend five minutes on it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wouldn&#8217;t that be cool?<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[02:44] Curiosity and Resistance\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curiosity is an amazing thing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I didn&#8217;t realize that some parts of me weren&#8217;t curious, and now I notice when sometimes I feel walled off or closed off to learning something new; I notice it and I make a conscious decision. Maybe it&#8217;s not always like that, or maybe it wasn&#8217;t always like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What could it have been before now? I was almost an anthropology major in school. I ended up doing an interdisciplinary degree at UC Berkeley with a foundation of sociology, and then I took anthropology and history and a whole bunch of different things.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[03:21] History Is Not Fixed\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All that to say, even though we think that we know how things are right now, actually, they were very different previously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there isn&#8217;t a monolithic culture. There are many, many different kinds of cultures, and those cultures have changed over time. So if you find yourself saying, &#8220;Well, this is the way things are,&#8221; I would challenge you and say, &#8220;Well, actually, probably not.&#8221; What were they like five years ago, ten years ago, fifteen years ago?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you read some biographies? Can you watch documentaries? Can you even read novels and watch movies that give you an actual window into that other time period?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I highly encourage you to notice where you might be closed off and where you might wanna open up and go, &#8220;Well, maybe it isn&#8217;t like this or hasn&#8217;t always been like this.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[04:08] Matriarchy and Patriarchy<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m gonna pull out one example, &#8217;cause this has been on my mind since I was a child, and that&#8217;s the matriarchy and the patriarchy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, we&#8217;re going there. I write strong women heroines. I was brought up in a family that talked about feminism. I have feminists and activists in the family, feminist activists: my great-grandmother, her mother, my grandmother, but not in our household.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My parents focused on raising us. They did not go out onto the picket lines. But other family members of mine did, lots of protesters, and socialists and communists, and yes,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that, that is my heritage. I&#8217;ve always wondered, well, how come women aren&#8217;t equal to men? Why were there, is there, and has there been these restrictions on all kinds of things?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I barely even understood what they were when I was a kid, but I could feel them, and they were talked about. Come to find out after lots of research that it&#8217;s not monolithic. It&#8217;s not the patriarchy everywhere, and no matriarchy. There are still matriarchies that exist. It is not that in the Western world there has forever been a patriarchal society of one flavor or another, and it&#8217;s not ever been that women didn&#8217;t have a role to play and didn&#8217;t play important roles in society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And there&#8217;s a lot more ways in which women were active in society than we know of; Then, those stories aren&#8217;t in the zeitgeist. So it&#8217;s actually one of my missions to start bringing out those stories, and I have in the pipeline a project that I will talk about when it&#8217;s ready to be revealed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For now, I explore these things in fiction, and I do a lot of research, and you should see my, my stack of books.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whoop, very high. All right. So that&#8217;s just one example of how I thought it was like black and white, but it&#8217;s actually all kinda shades of gray. All kinds of matriarchal and patriarchal systems have been existing over time for thousands and thousands of years, and thousands and thousands and thousands of years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[06:04] Archeology Rewrites Humanity<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And if you wanna know one field that is doing some amazing things and learning some amazing things and also changing our own understanding of who we are and what does it means to be human, check out archeology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh my goodness. With genetics and being able to do genomic typing on bones and all kinds of things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh my goodness, the field of archeology is just totally rewriting what we thought it meant to be human and where we come from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fascinating field in deep amount of transformation right now. All right.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[06:35] Wrap Up and Community Invite<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m gonna stop here today. I wanna go off and learn something new. Go off and learn something new, and please tell me about it. I wanna know what you are obsessed about right now. What are you doing deep dives in? What are you curious about?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you wish you could be spending some time in? Please reach out to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you sign up for our World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers, you&#8217;ll also be invited to come join the Fellowship of the Pen, our online community, a Facebook group where you can come and share your passions, ask questions, learn more about our offers, and all that good stuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, everyone, that&#8217;s it for this week. Happy studying, happy writing. Write long and prosper. Yay.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><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><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\/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=\"Beth Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beth Barany is an award-winning fantasy and science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. They help novelists write, revise, and publish stories that matter\u2014blending practical craft guidance with a big-picture commitment to imagination, meaning, and possibility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about Beth Barany at these sites:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coaching site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/baranyschooloffiction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School of Fiction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersfunzone.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer\u2019s Fun Zone blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CONNECT\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact Beth: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/podcast\/#tve-jump-185b4422580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/podcast\/#tve-jump-185b4422580<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Email: beth@bethbarany.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LinkedIn:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bethbarany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bethbarany\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IG: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bethbarany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bethbarany\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bethbarany\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bethbarany\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FB: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bethbarany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bethbarany<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">X: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BethBarany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/BethBarany<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CREDITS<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EDITED WITH DESCRIPT:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.descript.com?lmref=_w1WCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> https:\/\/www.descript.com?lmref=_w1WCA <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Refer-a-Friend link)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MUSIC CREDITS : Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/uppbeat.io\/t\/soundroll\/fuzz-buzz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> https:\/\/uppbeat.io\/t\/soundroll\/fuzz-buzz<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> License code: UMMKDRL02DFGKJ0L. \u201cFuzz buzz\u201d by Soundroll. 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