Brandon Sanderson’s 2012 Semester at BYU: Creative Writing, Lecture 5
This video is a mirror of the materials posted by user writeaboutdragons. I’ve provided some notes with timestamps below. Enjoy!
*Notes*
0:12 / Intro to guest lecturer Eric James Stone
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ja...
2:44 / How Eric got into writing and publishing
11:46 / Eric discusses his Nebula award nomination
23:02 / Eric’s collection of published works
24:55 / Writing short fiction
- It is not a way to make a living on its own; do it for practice and to get your name out there
- Some skills translate to long fiction form (dialogue) but others will not
- Short fiction relies on established tropes to shortcut some things
37:50 / Questions from the class