Use Perspective Like Brandon Sanderson (Writing Advice)
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- Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
- Brandon Sanderson's use of perspective when writing The Stormlight Archive (along with his other works) is just incredible. Hopefully, there are points covered in this video that you can apply when writing your own novels!
"Honor is dead... but I'll see what I can do." Such a DOPE line, made even better that we get it from Dalinar's perspective.
The way you explain things like this really scratches an itch in my brain with how easy it is to understand. I can already see myself looking to this channel if I ever run into another writing obstacle.
Great video as always and I really hope you get the traction you deserve soon! Best of luck with your writing!
Nice analysis. The unfortunate side effect is that, while the books are epic in scale, some readers are turned off by all the different points of view and trying to keep track of everything.
Definitely! This is a risk you take when writing stories of massive scale. Though as the saying goes: if you try to please everyone, you please no one. Some readers may be put off by his lengthy works, but whatever Sanderson is doing seems to have struck a chord with many others. Thank you for the comment!
I got goosebumps from hearing you read that line and I was just playing the video in the background wasn't even my main focus haha
This is standard practice in romance novels, too! You want your reader to fall in love with, ideally, both main characters while they are falling in love with each other. So you use each character's perspective to enhance the virtues of the other character for the reader's sake, then you use a character's own perspective to bring them down to earth and keep the character realistic and relatable.
This is what Timothy Zahn did with Thrawn and Pelleon in his star wars novels. I always thought it was so genius!
Beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing about the new Thrawn trilogy, he almost always uses Vanto or Faro to show him off.
Thanks Yarn. What a brilliant idea. You’ve made me realize a change of perspective is just what I need for my prologue to make my readers feel more for my detective. Excellent advice.
Awesome! Always happy to hear that my videos have helped someone with their writing. Thank you for the comment, and good luck with your writing!
Bruh….this was gold. Both as a massive Sanderson fan and as an aspiring fantasy writer.
Bought here by the algorithm. Subscribed for great content.
Thank you for the vids.
Would love to see more from you.
May hou be fine, wherever you are.
I hope you come back to this, your content is awesome. Even if it takes you time to make videos, I hope you continue to do it
Someone already mentioned Zahn but I'll say this anyway. I've been reading his Star Wars novels recently and have been impressed with his usage of perspective. I've been trying to implement some of the tricks he uses into my own work. It's nice to see a video on this as well to help me process it all.
Hey hey dude. Just wanted to say ive watched a few of your videos now and youre onto something here. If its something you enjoy doing, I would enjoy watching more videos when you decide to come back to YT. Good luck on your journey!
So Sanderson basically makes the point of view character’s thought’s/ feeling’s the audiences? Coz when Cenn is saved by Kaladin, we, like Cenn, revere Kaladin and are like “oh thank god”.
The same goes in the other scenes you mentioned, like Dalinar being desperate to find someone. The audience is also put into Dalinar’s shoes as this occurs and like Dalinar, is blind to Kaladin’s perspective and knowledge.
I think a lot of this also happens in films - the one I thought of immediately was the Sam Raimi first Spider Man film, where all the New Yorkers stick up for Spider-Man and defend him from the Green Goblin. Or in the second film when a person on the subway says “he’s just a kid” when he realises how young Spider-Man is.
I've not read a word of Sanderson, but have enjoyed his lectures!
Brilliantly explained, Yarn! 1:05 This is so true. Kaladin is easy one of my all-time favorite book characters, and while his overall development and story is great, his introduction stands out in how much you get amazed by him, from his actions to his title (Stormblessed). You don't even know Kaladin yet, but Sanderson makes you already eager to read more about him.
Man such good insight! love these videos dude!
This is a great perspective and video! Great content! Keep it up! :)
Love the videos, just finished catching up on all of them. Can't wait for the next one. Keep up the good work!
Looking forward for new content!
Yay a new video! I listened to all your other ones yesterday 😅 keep up the good work
Thank you! The goal from here on out is weekly videos at a minimum, so there are plenty more to come!
Again amazing video
Honor is Dead....always gives me chills!
Right? One of the few lines in my reading history that literally made me stand up out of my chair when I realized what was happening.
Most excellent !
Even when I don't read fantasy, this has become a favorite video and I'm barely halfway through. Great job.
Thank you so much!
Working on a novel and the algorithm threw your videos my way. Nice work!
Thank you, and good luck with your novel!
First point also happened in mistborn when a random peasant sees Kelsier in the prologue.
Andrez Sapkowski also uses this technique a lot in the Witcher saga and I love getting a different perspective on the main character
Another great video 👍
Bro I just found your channel and automatically started devouring your videos. Scratches all my itches. Imagine my surprise when I found out how small your channel still is. Thank you for the uploads! You’ve probably heard it before, but I believe you’ll definitely grow ;)
Thank you for the comment and kind words!
Wow you posted this right in time! I was just researching writing Perspective and character voice. Thank you for all the advice, from one young writer to another.
So happy I could help you out-thank you for the comment!
@@YarnRay No problem! Because of you I’ve just begun an actual outline of one of my stories that’s been in my head for over four years now. Your video on outlining helped so much to get years of thoughts and random notes in order. Thanks again.
Excellent video
Wake up babe new Yarn Ray video just dropped
I love all comments, but I extra love this one
The quality of your videos is incongruent with your number of subscribers. Hopefully, not for long!
(Mild spoilers for The Way of Kings ahead!)
I read The Way of Kings for the first time a month or two ago. At first, reading Chapter 1 from the perspective of a character who I soon found out to be a throwaway that we wouldn't see again at all made me wonder what exactly the point of doing that was. But when I reached Kaladin's final flashback chapter and found out what exactly happened at that point in the story? Holy SHIT, man. Holy fucking shit. 700 pages of buildup for that one moment, worth every last hour I spent reading the book. Kaladin is hands down my favorite Sanderson character so far, beating out Spook and Elend from Mistborn.
(And I stopped watching the video halfway through because of the spoiler warning for Words of Radiance, which I haven't finished yet. I'll come back and watch once I have.)
Thank you! I'm trying to learn and improve with each upload, so hopefully that will speed things up a bit as well. Also, I went through a very similar experience reading The Way of Kings for the first time. When things come full circle and you get the complete picture of what you've read, it's an amazing moment.
No worries about stopping halfway! Don't get me wrong, I like high viewer retention, but I'd much rather my viewers be able to enjoy my videos without worrying about spoilers, so by all means, obey those warnings if needed!
I can understand learning from Sanderson's outlining. His plots are basically the only thing he does well but perspective?
More videos please:D
No pressure though!
PLS START POSTING AGAIN IM BEGGING YOU
I found your channel recently and I couldn't figure out who you looked like then remembered Trevor Wallace the RUclipsr. I'd say you are each other's doppelganger almost. I compare you two to Javier Bardem and Jeffery Dean Morgan; that kind of similarity
I've never gotten that, but his Gary Vee bit absolutely kills me so I suppose I could do worse as far as doppelgangers go haha
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My character is a big pessimist
Pessimism can make for an interesting character! Their fight to overcome that pessimism to do what is needed can be enthralling. Best of luck with your writing!