Writing a 6-book, award-winning fantasy series just to win an internet argument is the ultimate level of petty and I'm 100% here for it.
@zeshdawg7 ай бұрын
you know what they say, most people make art either out of lust or out of spite
@ren-kuroyuki3 ай бұрын
Can someone explain what's this about? I'm new here and intrested in the past drama!
@BellatorumBooks3 ай бұрын
@@ren-kuroyuki I cant remember the authors name, nor the concepts provided, but essentially an author was having an argument with someone on an online forum who basically said a concept A would never work with a concept B. The author then proceeded to prove the statement wrong by making a full series out of those two concepts and it became a 6 book award winning fantasy series.
@KveldredАй бұрын
@@ren-kuroyuki It's about _Codex Alera._ The author was having an argument with a poster on an online forum about whether "great authors make any idea seem great" or "great ideas are what make an author seem great". Jim, the author, eventually said "okay, fine, let's make a bet: gimme your worst, most mismatched couple ideas and I'll turn them into a cool novel." The poster said "okay: lost Roman legion..." (overdone; liked by history nerds & old men) "...plus Pokemon." (worst possible hook to add to "lost Roman legion"; liked by children & children) So he made a series of novels about a Roman legion that wandered into another world wherein magic exists as, essentially, collecting Pokemon, which gives you their powers. (although this is a bit misleading; he fudged a bit by making the legion thing basically unrelated to the plot at all, at least IIRC from the first couple books; but it's a good series)
@Gorboduc2 жыл бұрын
45:08 ideas, 47:49 good ideas, 49:44 brainstorming ideas, 1:04:17 combining ideas into stories.
@katrina56833 жыл бұрын
And i found another “edition” of brandons lectures. Ive watched the new one on his channel, camera panda, and write about dragons. Its never quite exactly the same. Some gold nugget hidden in each one. Neat to see how his classroom has been upgraded over time.
@annejia5382 Жыл бұрын
It's a running joke that in a few years his lectures are gonna be held in an arena 😂
@ADHDlanguages4 жыл бұрын
The "ninjas attack" line is made much funnier considering I just finished one of his books where ninjas suddenly attack.
@apunahasapeemapetilon91113 жыл бұрын
lol
@juancamilocalvache4517 ай бұрын
The kitsen?
@ADHDlanguages7 ай бұрын
@@juancamilocalvache451 this was a long time ago but I believe I was referring to the Dakhor monks from Elantris.
@TheHazeKiller5 жыл бұрын
"I'll have ninjas attack." As a discovery writer, this is far too accurate.
@ButtersDClown4 жыл бұрын
Audio picks back up at 31:20 ish
@NomadicDruidinthenight3 жыл бұрын
Felt like the important portion taken out of the story right in the middle of being told you have the powers of God but ---
@ButtersDClown3 жыл бұрын
@@NomadicDruidinthenight yeah essentially lmao
@MerlinTheCommenter Жыл бұрын
Thanks. That really sucks. We’ll never know what he said for that minute 😢
@Steph97377 жыл бұрын
I was able to write 8k words in a week and I'm partially blind. But but but! I have been planning this book I'm working on since November so I was basically ready to write. And I had very little stuff that week so it doesn't really count. :D I owe a lot of my practice skills to these lectures. Thank you so much for sharing! :)
@dopilus6 жыл бұрын
One of my eyes was injured years back and today it's like looking through wax paper. Had to learn how to type without looking REAL fast , lol. PRO: I can type just under 100wpm - CON: I can't proofread without getting a headache!
@Luka11803 жыл бұрын
Did you finish the book? :)
@eclairz92754 жыл бұрын
The story Brandon refers to as "Slow Glass" is "Light of Other Days " for those interested.
@NomadicDruidinthenight3 жыл бұрын
Am i the only one feeling compelled to get my 1000 words by Monday?
@klassytome7 жыл бұрын
Fantastic Mr. Sanderson! I wish you had been my professor when I was in college.
@AncientKepler9 күн бұрын
The revenge against the past self concept reminds me of Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, which was a great book
@ChBrahm3 жыл бұрын
The dude that told Jim to write pokemon and the lost roman legion must feel really stupid right now
@melodine7075 жыл бұрын
Would be Much better if the whole room was microphone up. But great...thanks Brandon!
@bonbonpony4 жыл бұрын
49:12 Is there a list somewhere with all those different types of plots?
@milospollonia11213 жыл бұрын
TVTropes, but do be careful, you can sink hours into it
@bonbonpony3 жыл бұрын
@@milospollonia1121 I know tvtropes, and yeah, this site is a MESS :q
@omegaminoseer45399 ай бұрын
For those of you who wanted to have a concise version of the stories featured: [1] When a time-displaced dentist is forced into a seemingly Stone-Age African village, he must use the guidance of his late five year-old mentee's ghost to navigate how to connect with the tribe. Failure will have horrible implications for the future generations, as the dentist slowly recognizes that he wasn't sent backwards... [2] When a hedonist bard is given the chance to look into his future, he is disgusted at how domestic and selfless he becomes, 60 years later. With his heterochromatic eyes, one for pyrotechnics and the other for breath-control, he's sworn to reject enfeeblement. His future self will not take that lying down, as being able to see end doesn't mean you've seen the journey.
@TRYCLOPS16 ай бұрын
Goofy story. I was more into the stone age African dentist. Like there was dentistry in ancient Egypt. I’m sure stone age people got cavities and needed some teeth removed or someone to check on them etc. So you can just study the history of dentistry and find things to bring to the story. The revenge part can come from that shaman kid whose tribe was brutally murdered by the more “civilized” settler society. The dentist is from that society. The kid got captured as a slave and somehow ended up with the dentist who needed an apprentice and helper. He recognizes the importance of dental hygiene and wants to improve the lives of all people. Kid is set on revenge and plans to murder all the people of that society (that is more like a group of different tribes that form pseudo city state settlements. Slowly kid learns of the job and sees the doctor as a miracle guy when he sees the miracles he does by healing people everyday. Kid starts seeing him as a father and doctor sees him as his son. Doctor is interested in his shaman ideas and kid helps him figure out a way to use anesthesia for his procedures. In the end, settlers get invaded by tribes tied to the kid’s old tribes. Kid is not murdered as they recognize him as the shaman kid. He’s taken back to his tribe and his shaman titles return as well as importance. But deep down he sees the backwardness of his people. So he quits his shaman title and becomes a dentist. And his teachings become known in the ancient world. The legacy he learned from that man of science during his captivity. lol
@martinkanchev75695 жыл бұрын
I still think that pokemon couldn't possibly qualify as a bad idea, given that it's the most sold game.
@nathelm86934 жыл бұрын
Cartoon animals, stuffed into confined spheres by legal poachers. Forced to fight to exhaustion for sport.
@martinkanchev75694 жыл бұрын
@@nathelm8693 i know it's pretty dope isn't it
@nathelm86934 жыл бұрын
@@martinkanchev7569 Heck ya. I actually caught a Pokemon in rl, but it turned back into my neighbors cat when I stuffed it into a bag..
@TimMcGames5 жыл бұрын
Impossible to hear any of the students. *sad face* Thanks Brandon for the awesome videos!
@howardkoor93652 жыл бұрын
He is so brilliant
@Romcom3565 жыл бұрын
What does the student suggest at 59:42? BS doesn't repeat it and sound full on doesn't catch what the student said.
@zmunk5 жыл бұрын
Headphones blasting, I think it's: "revenge against your past self."
@Romcom3565 жыл бұрын
zmunk great, thank you. No wonder he was impressed.
@xablep8849Ай бұрын
29:00
@altarushАй бұрын
Thank you .
@iandevine30632 жыл бұрын
Bet those baseball players wish they had an eraser.
@xablep8849Ай бұрын
1:04:00
@billyalarie9294 жыл бұрын
i cannot do it with all the laptop keyboard tapping. please find a way to fix the audio so that's turned way down, if possible.
@nathelm86934 жыл бұрын
It's important to hear the tapping on keyboards far more than you can hear questions being asked!
@realce6663 жыл бұрын
Good luck.
@polyopulis6 жыл бұрын
this video doesn't play :\
@slinkyatrest6 жыл бұрын
This one never loads for me :(
@mikewright30293 жыл бұрын
yeah... give the kids a mic. lol. :P
@AFlockOfMidgets6 жыл бұрын
This Video is broken to me. It sounds like an interesting one. Please reupload or fix
@zmunk6 жыл бұрын
I've contacted youtube to try and get this fixed. It worked for about a year, but I made no change and suddenly a month ago it broke. If they can't fix it, I'll re-upload.
@ger59565 жыл бұрын
zmunk sound cuts out randomly around the 30min mark, nothing major, but a few minutes of silence during an interesting topic
@bonbonpony4 жыл бұрын
@@ger5956 That's probably why the cut is there. I've seen this sneaky type of censorship happening on KZbin quite often. It also happens on Google Books: you can find scanned books in their archive that have blank pages or just portions of it. But not blank as if they were blank originally (then you would see the random "scanner dust" on them), but blank as if one took a brush tool in a photo editing program and painted all over the important details. There are also warped pages, or pages covered with hands (and again, not just random pages, but those most important ones; and it's totally intentional, because if you were given a job of scanning a book, and you covered up some page with your hand by accident, you would most likely just scan this particular page one more time, wouldn't you? :q )
@Luka11803 жыл бұрын
@@bonbonpony There is no connection here LMAO. Cool it with the conspiracy theories, okay?
@bonbonpony3 жыл бұрын
@@Luka1180 Not okay. And it's not a conspiracy THEORY. I described what I found and experienced myself. If you don't believe me, that's your problem, not mine.
@SinginTheDream4 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry but WHAT is this person even typing?! I couldn't stop thinking of the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone scene where Harry numbly writes every word Snape says 😅 Pay attention, dude!
@nathelm86934 жыл бұрын
Seriously. Must have been writing their memoire. The first few minutes could have been summed up with, "practice". Yet this student was burning a hole through their keyboard haha.