Sanderson 2013.7 - Viewpoint, Tense, and Style

Brandon Sanderson’s 2013 Semester at BYU: Creative Writing, Lecture 7: Viewpoint, Tense, and Style

This video is a mirror of the materials posted by user writeaboutdragons. I’ve provided some notes with timestamps below, and occasional color correction. Enjoy!

**Notes**

(Sorry, my availability hasn't been what it was when I started on this project, but in order to get the completed series up to my channel, I'm going to upload the videos and add the notes as soon as I can. Check back later!)

[HooktonFonnix]

These videos are insanely motivating. I listen to them at work and I'm aching to get home and write

[JD-fjss]

We need more videos of Brandon editing stories.

[lisabruna]

Watching this in 2020 and Brandon's obvious cold is giving me ALL the anxiety, lol! Great video. Learning so much from him!

[randomdron]

Thank you so much for upload this classes. I hope still here for many years please, they are a lot, and view them will take some time for me. Thank you again

[warmflash]

Hello Brandon • Fantastic seminar • I’ve been watching you for about a month and finally a light went on in my brain • Thanks to you • love your classes • Love from Toronto • Oliver

[howardkoor]

Imagine being a student and having such a brilliant teacher

[caesarjulius]

Great lecture by Sanderson but the sentence he cut from the dude's text "...Overwhelmed had no part in his planned demeanor..." IMO was actually a great sentence and should not have been cut.

[johnston]

Does he give any books that help you learn how to write in 3rd person limited?

[pyramidworship]

what if he started going through someones writing on the projector and it was just complete crap xD

[WritingDialogue]

Lol you can really tell that Brandon is so annoyed by the first student who asks a question 😂 if you don't believe me, watch the other lectures in this series and see their other interactions

[MrNoucfeanor]

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

[helenasvachova]

Uglies are not told in the first person though ^^;; Otherwise, great lecture as always

[monkeyhighlord]

hes cute on this video, look a lot like peter griffin

[thecaptain]

It's absurd that you seem to think that writing in omniscient means you have to vomit everything you know about everything onto the page.

[anthonypeltier]

I think he discounts tolkien too much, i dont believe hes ever read the lord of the rings or the sillmarillion, if he did he would probably cite tolkien more. Tolkien and Robert Jordan encompass the most in depth universes, but Tolkien did the linguistic work of about 15 people, evidenced by how Sam speaks, Frodo speaks, Boromir speaks, and so on. Lovely mythology, obviously im a huge Tolkien nerd