I love Brandon so much but seeing that hat in 2024 threw me off 😂

Oh man i wanted the 52 year old guy to get into wizarding school

omg can we let him get to outlining :')

I think keeping a verb or noun less specific is good in a one place; when you're trying to allude without giving away. Adding that extra detail to foreshadow something, that to the reader at the time doesn't place it, but provides evidence to the twists and turns later on when they are revealed.

13:50, I can't place it but I remember distinctly being told to ALWAYS change it each sentence and NEVER use said. I trust the actual author, whoever taught me that I wish never had.

He fingers that gummy bear 20 times over before dishing it out. These are not appetising rewards

these are helpful, thank you professor!

super helpful!

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Funny how all these comments are about gummy bears. I was glad when he acknowledged that he shouldn't be coughing into his hand and then passing out gummy bears... but then a few minutes later he started passing out gummy bears with that same hand lol. He's evolved a lot over the past 12 years

Which institute is this...I think we don't have any class in india for writers. Here it is the best institute.amyone knows where it is?in America I guess? And this guy and Robert McKee the writing guru I have found the best or Aaron sorkin is the best what do u say?

12 years later and the Bechdel ruined entertainment lol.

Wow, this is great!

This guy's smart. He should write books

How to get a reader to empathize with a character: have them step on a lego.

I used to think the style is linked to the content, why it is written that way than other then I learn they are separated things. We can have the plot structure, with the exact elements but taught in different voice. That's why content matter more. But this video is about the style of writing process.

Fan-Fiction has a bad reputation and Brendaniel's videos doesn't worsen my point of view on this. To this day, I find fan-fiction boring to read. I get they are writing for fun and love but there is always something missing. If they love the media, why they twist them just because they love something that happened to have the name and appearance. What make the characters and the world the other people build? I believe you can translate these detail in written words but fan-ficcer tend to be melodramatic, overly-poetic that didn't focus on the content. I am reading for stories, not word play. Words are mean to describe what's going on. And consider they turn around the pot, I am far to find a fan-fiction that match my expectation. If they write to feel better, I understand but I don't understand, even with my resistance, how they have guts to publish story with questionable elements. Why they can't keep this to themself? Especially when on internet, people can criticize your precious puppies.

Watching the Moyers-Campbell talks through when they were first-run I was surprised and delighted to see a friend of mine, an expert in Asian art, listed in the end credits as “special consultant”. I hadn’t seen him in over a year but bumped into him on the street within a few days of seeing this episode; actually, he grabbed me off the street to help him move his belongings into storage while he went abroad for a stretch. After I’d gushed a bit about seeing him cited, and how much I was learning from the show he cut me off with a “Yeah, Campbell’s wrong.” With prodding he admitted he was too flip and explained a representative for the show called him for examples of Asian art illustrating Campbell’s points in the coming episode. “He said WHAT?” Was all that went through my friend’s head as the rep outlined Campbell’s assertions. Finally my friend told this person, ‘You need to hire an illustrator to depict these ideas, because you won’t find them in Asian art.” Basically, in his monomania for the mono myth, Campbell glossed over a lot of rich variations that deeply characterize the people who generated a given specific tradition . Another friend who was an expert in Native American art and spiritualism-at the time I lived in Ann Arbor, MI, near the University of Michigan campus, where experts abound-later confirmed this summation.

This is so interesting! I've never heard of this distinction before now. When I was in high school and college writing history or english papers or whatever, I was a hardcore outliner. I would basically write the whole thing in outline form, then expand until it became a paper, then I'd basically just spell check and be done with it. I majored in math in college, and if you've ever written a math paper you might agree with me that it's pretty much impossible not to outline. But now that I am writing fiction, I find that when I have an idea for a story, I want to write it right away. So I will have like two chapters in my head, get them on paper, write a couple more, and then stop and be like, OK, it's time to decide where this is actually going, and do a real outline. So it's sort of a mix of both! In my core, in my heart of hearts, I am definitely an outliner/architect, but now I know that a little of what I do is "discovery" writing!

Never read a brandon sanderson book, but I love this series of lectures. I will have to read some when I get the chance!!

This is a great series of videos. I'm pretty new to this though, and I am not sure I understand what we're talking about when we say abstract/concrete. Could someone explain it a little, or tell me what to google to learn a little more?

This information is priceless! Thank you for everything

Now that I'm watching this video 11 years later I wonder if he has advice for the emotional stuff now

I detest epistolaries, even Dracula.

It can't be easy to teach Writing to students who think Surfing is Reading, have small and distorted vocabularies, can't spell and rely on AI and Grammarly...

Branderson said Chief O'Brien rights

Haha! I love fight scenes. Bloody ones where bones crunch, and guts come out. However, I skip a lot of sex scenes.

Is this the last??

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I love how he’s tossing literal virus infused gummies at everyone like it’s normal 😂😂😂 I would’ve screamed

Whyd you guys stop?

Excelente, thank you for sharing. Dear Brandon, please give your KZbinrs assignments. 🤔

The Vampire Lestat is 1st and it's brilliant.

Has to do with emotions. 1st hooks you emotionally.

Beware: do not click the writeaboutdragons like in the description. It appears to redirect to malicious websites.

3:24 I actually like this, they laugh about the motivation but they are wrong, reminds me Power from csm "why am i running so desesperately? Why do i feel this pain in my chest? Because of a cat?! What a stupid reason" the smallest things might mean the world to us. she could be tomboyish, muscular and dirty because of her job which pushes girls and guys away, so almost no friends and lovers and feeling out of place while also loving beauty and feminity but feeling all wrong which torns her inside. Think Brienne of Tarth. Her true passion could be art and beauty, living and bringing joy to life but her job is a harbinger of death. "Swords are tools made to kill" - Musashi, "this job of killing... there's nothing honorable about it" - Guts. The dichotomy of weapons for self protection and destruction. But weapons possess great beauty too, you would see this passion for beauty in the things she makes, it would be the most beautiful equipment of the city. She could even get into a plot of creating weapons for royalty maybe even under threat. Her dream for beauty and love could be something she cares while she's stuck in situations out of her control, like that scene of your character creating door lockers. The final scene could be her FINALLY doing some runway modeling, and even getting married, it wouldnt be the end but a delayed beginning.

3:00 Pretty good girl!! Still raw cause we need to know what kind of world is and people in it but okay start. Like westeros and Succession War, fight for a throne but almost totally different story.

10:43 They can if is different time periods, planets or realities, they could be or seem unrelated or be unknowingly affect each other. Also this whole family death and sexuality cliche suck, it pops over and OVER. Her dark part could be that she works maintaining a war that makes her people or other people miserable, she says she has to for their survival, she's a tough woman, but feels very guilty. She's also too young to have a family and wish more freedom and self disscovery. Her siblings could also work with her - like Askeladd - and child labor is NOT cool. Think Frostpunk with AOT.

8:54 Ooooohhh, that can be good!!!! He might discard something that dont exist yet or his job might have a different meaning. The fact he's like this now also create a dichotomy indicating an incident, since he's old he also had a long life opening chance for a story within a story and a HUUUGE plot with other characters like in AOT.

6:06 I dont like how they, or i should say Bran, made the girls like men just to make them strong, i HATE that. Feminity is no opposite to great character and they can like girly things cause that's how most girls are. Things like cooking, herbology, fashion have a BUNCH of high level skills that are adaptable to a bunch of situations and bring a lot of conflict depending on the context and challenges. Think Vagabond's starvation arc, Funger's Olivia and Pathologic's Haruspex ("he thought this herb medicine made up! And he it is keeping you alive!!!"), film's Cruella - fashion has a lot of knowlegde about perception, angles, colors, marketing, drawing, anatomy, nutrition. You could literally make a Battle Shonen like Bakuman but with fashion - about people trying to outdo each other and even using manipulation to get chances. And those premises can always be broken by an incident that throw them in another situation that ask them to adapt (i certainly had to develop a lot of skills that i didnt gave damn and couldnt avoid applying and adapting things that i already knew to that). Like the Prehevil Festival with all those unlikely groups trying to survive, those characteristics doesnt need to form their whole personality either, they can even have an unlikely combination of skills that turn out to be lethal, like Chrollo combining Korutopi, Sharu, Machi and his stamps powers to be very op, What??? Powers that weren't suit to combat suddenly became very dangerous. Think about the habits they've built to sustain that major passion too, good luck being a great lifter without planning, nutrition, habits, search and even comunication skills (and i didnt even mention the others).

4:42 All the Peter Parker nerds stood up immediately 😂😂, it's like when someone mention "anime" or "brazilian" on a stream.

No offence to Brandon Sanderson, and this has nothing to do with the substance of this lecture, but think god he got stylist.

Blow by blow really can be fun. But the fights need to be short and very individual for that. (The Alex Verus books are a great example, because the protagonist is a diviner, who can see blows coming and adjusts. The fights are really dynamic and narrated a lort inside Alex' head. Great writing.) I lilke Sanderson not being absolute with his guidelines. Therre is NOTHING worse than fixed rules to take your motivation as a new writer.

“How do you plot a romance?” Have one in real life. It becomes a lot easier to write one.

Cat and laser, rather than cat and mouse.

Last part about jobs was SO GOOD

I can't imagine skipping fight scenes

Now I want gummy bears

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Fantastic video, huge thanks for sharing!