“Brandon Sanderson (born December 19, 1975) is an American writer. He is best known for his Mistborn series and his work in finishing Robert Jordan‘s epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time. In 2010, Sanderson published The Way of Kings, the first book in a ten book series called The Stormlight Archive. Sanderson worked as an editor for the semi-professional magazine Leading Edge while attending school at Brigham Young University, where he now periodically teaches creative writing. In 2008 Sanderson started a podcast with authors Dan Wells and Howard Tayler called Writing Excuses, involving topics about creating and producing genre writing and webcomics.”
Source: Wikipedia
Here are the links to the amazing writing lectures by fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. You can find it here on youtube, on the channel Write About Dragons. Either way, I’m posting the lessons below so you can find them and reference to them easily.
LECTURE ONE
Lesson One – Intro to Sci-Fi/Fantasy Writing
Lesson Three – Class Goals and Format
Lesson Four – Gardeners vs. Architects
Lesson Five – Writing Group Essentials
LECTURE TWO
Lesson 1 – What Makes a Good Plot
LECTURE THREE
Lesson 2 – First Person Viewpoints
Lesson 3 – Third Person Viewpoints
LECTURE FOUR
Lesson 1 – Sympathetic Characters I
Lesson 2 – Sympathetic Characters II
Lesson 3 – Show us the Character
Lesson 4 – Giving a Character a Life Beyond the Plot
Lesson 5 – Character Creation Examples I
Lesson 6 – Character Creation Examples II
LECTURE FIVE – Guest Lecture by Eric James Stone
LECTURE SIX
Lesson 1 – Networking Via Convention
Lesson 2 – Some alternative to cons
Lesson 3 – Meeting Editors and Agents
Lesson 4 – Three Goals of Meeting Agents
Lesson 6 – Some Questions and Statistics
All rights reserved to Brandon Sanderson and the youtube channel in which these videos are posted. Below are the covers of the Final Empire Triology by Brandon Sanderson.
~Happy Writing!
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