Why Mistborn’s First Chapter Is Perfect
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Brandon Sanderson's use of perspective in Mistborn's first chapter is incredible. In this video, I break down how he does this, and you can apply these tricks to your own writing!
The amount of thoughtfulness and intention and sheer cleverness Sanderson puts into each scene he writes is impressive. I THOUGHT I was a clever storyteller, but no. Sanderson is a jaguar stalking prey, while I'm just a bloodhound on a scent lol. Great video Yarn Ray! Very inciteful.
This video was very helpful, sometimes I see them doing something very well like in mistborn but don't know how and this video has clearly shown how, thank you!
Just discovered your channel and am currently going through all your videos. To say that I've been enjoying them would be an understatement. Sanderson's writing style is something I really admire even if his stories aren't always for me. For example, I LOVED Vin and the first half of "Mistborn", but once she started going to balls and the main story started moving, I found myself missing the street urchin in the first half of the book. I liked Kelsier, it's kinda hard not to with that kind of charisma, but Vin was who got me invested.
The first couple chapters with Vin were incredible, and the scene where she's sitting shirtless in a warehouse full of men because she's afraid of getting blood on her one and only shirt, and is afraid of the men touching her is such a sad scene. Then later (pages 516-517 of my paperback edition) when she goes on an emotional rant to Kelsier and the rest of the crew about them being no better than the nobles and that they have no idea what it's like to be tempted to slit a man's throat for their moldy bread, or afraid to sleep because she might be raped, was a real heartbreaker. That followed by her stating the only person she loved/loves was her abusive brother and how trust is a lie we tell ourselves was just icing on the cake.
Apologies, but I could gush over Vin's character all day, which is why I didn't care so much for the second half of the book and why the sequels just don't interest me like they probably should. "Mistborn" Chapter 1 may be the perfect way to start a story, but as someone who prefers character driven narratives, the first chapter or two with Vin are the perfect way to get someone to fall in love with your character in my personal opinion. I'm a fanfiction writer myself, but I'm working on a handful of novels and Brandon Sanderson has been a major influence on me the past few months. God bless, and happy writing.
So happy you've been enjoying the videos, thank you! Also, no need to apologize about gushing over good writing-that's all this channel is about! Vin's opening chapters really are amazing, you're right. The way Sanderson gets us to quickly sympathize and care for Vin is worth studying on its own. Good luck with your writing, and thanks again!
Did you say Vin bathed in front of a dude? Where? What chapter is that?
@@aliomar2912 Nope, I never said that.
@@immortallegacy100 Did you say something about Vin being shirtless in a warehouse?
@@aliomar2912 Yes, it's in my comment.
These are great videos. I see you only uploaded a few, about a year ago. I could easily watch more. I hope that all is well and you are still writing :)
love your channel so much. pure quality
I was hoping to find a video talking about this. The first chapter of the final empire is simply amazing, every page fills you with questions. By the time you end that chapter you probably have 50 questions and you only got replies to 5. It's the perfect way to start a book.
This is an amazing analysis! Good work!
I have just started reading the book-I am only a few short chapters in, but I excpect to be done at this pace within a few days. I don’t know if it’s the magic based system I vaguely remember my friend telling me back a few years, the epic scene by scene playbook the writer has given, or the questions that just have to be answered, but I’m digging the first book so much!
These videos are great. Keep at it!
Loving these, but I'd definitely love to see some analysis on different authors
Maybe I'm alone in this one, but not only I've tried to read The Final Empire many times and I hate it more each time I try to read it, but also I'm convinced that it makes sense for it to not work, and I don't understand what am I missing, what is it that make this work with so many people when in theory it should not.
Ignoring the fact that starting with the pov of a character like Lord Tresting is something most people would advise you against for obvious reasons, I just can't stand how black and white that character and the whole conflict presented in the prologue is.
Star Wars told a similar story (not to mention it feels like a rip-off, at least in the beginning) and fixed these issues by making the antagonists charismatic and not focusing unnecessarily on how evil the empire was (as well as hinting at something supernatural being behind the evil empire, which made its evil nature more believable).
In The Final Empire, I feel like I'm reading a pamphlet, like if someone's constantly trying to manipulate me into siding with the "good guys", which makes me dislike them already since it feels super narcissistic, like the protagonists are writing the story themselves to make themselves look good (and no, this is not what Disney does, you've never paid attention to a Disney movie if you think this is what they do). Both Kelsier and Vin always give me an awful first impression: they're so perfect that they're annoying (just like the average Mary Sue that readers criticize so much) and they seem exactly like the cliché of the pedantic "charismatic anti-hero" and your typical "strong independent heroine" (which were old even back in 2006). And both Lord Tresting and Vin's boss feel like your typical "bully" cliché character meant only to manipulate you into liking the poor innocent heroes. I don't care if the story becomes more nuance later, if the novel starts over three times, and each time it seems cliché and biased, I don't know how so many people don't find it annoying like I do.
PS: I have absolutely nothing against Sanderson though, I'm sure he's a great writer and a great guy. My problem is only with the first chapters of The Final Empire.
Nice video bro 🫡