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Writing seems more lofty after watching this one. Too many mistakes to make.

This man knows how life operates.

When it comes to dialogues: Elmore Leonard.

And how do you kill an immortal? That's right, you take his bracelets.

Geez, some of these students are so frustrating.

Hey Brandon, I care about Dinosaurs :(. I'm writing a novel about a war between dinosaurs.

Omnamahashivayahajgdjgdjgdjgdjgdjgdjgd

Corrector and character

I disagree that you can tell how good someone is at piano in a minute. You can tell if someone is really bad at piano in one minute but the difference between an amateur, professional, and one in a million savant is much more difficult to discern. It would depend on what they are playing. There are amazing piano players that barely make a living and average piano players who make millions of dollars. There are hobbyist piano players who could blow your mind but never made a single dollar playing piano. In art the relationship between skill and success is tenuous at best. Art is incredibly subjective.

Love Sanderson so much, but the gulping sounds in this lecture make me feel violent. The mic does not need to be that sensitive

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1:12:02 The spider-verse writers could also think of all sorts of amazing things you could do with making spots on the wall

I’d recommend no headphones for this one

I hate reading first person present; it feels too blocky. Past tense allows for more narrative & introspection, especially in romance. Just my opinion.

Feels like this video was made in the 90s. great vid

For anyone coming to rewatch this series, his bio ends around 26:00, which is when the lecture sort of begins.

One of these students laughs like a hyena ad I am here for it

1:49…. What book/author/character are they referring to?

Perhaps the true babies were in the comments all along...

sanderson looks fly asf

It's funny how Brandon doesn't want to be known for what he _is_ known for; and what he considers the most important part of a novel, chatacterisation, is arguably the weakest part of his writing. I really enjoy his books, but mostly for the plot and the world building, not his characters or his prose. He doesn't seem to create the memorable characters of a Rothfuss or an Abercrombie. Maybe he's just too nice, and his niceness permeates all his characters making them seem a little two dimensional? I don't know. Regardless, i will always read his novels and listen to his lectures (especially on world building and story construction). He is a good storyteller and a fantastic teacher.

Do good mics have caffeine in them?

"Don't save the coolest parts of your story for Book 2" - Brandon S. I could NOT AGREE MORE. I hate it when I read a book and people tell me well you have to read the second one...COME ON!!!! This book needs to stand on its own.

Was Sanderson patient zero?

Someone let me know when “The Fairy Godfather” has been written.

This is how I imagine a 1920s Candyman would look at a funeral. 🎩🍭

I'm a victim of painted-glass prose. I can't wait to see how I go from flowing purple language to an array of color in descriptions.

I think that his statements about magic systems being interconnected with the lore of the universe is something that is often overlooked. It's always jarring when a mage can cast a MOAB on a small scale, but isn't being fielded as a breach operator, or used as an artillery cannon. However, the opposite is undersold. When the universe DOES flow together, you actually ignore it because it makes complete sense.

Not the Baby becoming the main Villain in this comment section lmao 😂😂 Lil guy is not interrupting anything here.

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.

I'm actually filled with an ironic panic. I mostly write in 3rd Person Omniscient, because I'm used to being a Dungeon Master. It may have some dangerous implications on how I write, since I don't give as solid delineations of thoughts as he outlined.

17:52 Goal of class, word count and timeline

You need to go back and take out the background noise. What is the camera man doing? Stripping metal?

The number of phones ringing in this is ridiculous. Dont you hear the Don talking!

Brandon Sanderson is a gem in the world, but hearing him explain “male privilege” is cringy as hell. I’m hoping his views have changed since 2012.

Just noticed the sign language translator in the room:)

I keep on thinking the thumbtack on the back of the wall is something on my computer screen🤣

Animorphs is the perfect example of where limitations are more interesting. The Animorphs could only be in morphed form for a maximum of two hours. This ended up being one of the most interesting elements of the story.

I wish she could have enunciated her 3-sentence pitch slower & with confidence.

R.I.P. that fedora

Not sure I'd call Vladimir's ceramic unicorn collection a weird quirk. At least not to his helmeted face.

They should have made the twelve parsecs thing just have been short hand for twelve parsecs in some standard u it of time. Like, it wouldn’t horrible to say the speed limit is 60 mile instead of 60 miles per hour, because the “per hour” is fairly assumed. So the retcon could have just been adding the extra phrasing as a clarification; 12 parsecs per interstellar minute” or whatever

Hey @zmunk, just really want to thank you for the wonderful work you've done putting these together. It's also really cool and respectful how you've left alone those lectures that Brandon uploads on his YT now. Really appreciate it!

Great video as always! But I'm dead over how he eviscerated that one girl right in the beginning of class😂😂 like he was so casual about it but like aired her laundry to the class lmao slay

2:24 question regarding writing consistently 10:02 " " revision 24:20 " " ending in the books 26:45 " " character voices 28:22 " " writing ritual 29:37 " " Writing powerful (God like) character 31:50 start Lecture on Prose 33:15 window pane prose 34:43 stained glass prose 38:02 purple prose 39:11 pyramid of abstraction 41:26 navel gazing 51:25 info damps 1:04:45 question about prologue 1:07:43 " " showing and telling character's thought 1:09:40 " " show v's tell 1:12:17 " " mystery subplots 1:14:03 " " revealing to the readers

12:50 - and today, narrative designers are common-place in the games industry

Brandon Sanderson teaching on prose... nobody else finds that ironic_

The people in the comments are being dramatic. The baby wails and gurgles a few times in the video, that's it. You can still hear easily hear the lecture. The way people are whining on this thread, I was expecting much worse.

“Blade Runner … anyone seen that film?” I love it. Anyone?