Character Type and Genre—Brandon Sanderson

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[CarlosRodriguez-dhmm]

"I'm Fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson, and this is my Masterclass... for free..."
Bless you, Brandon 🥲

[regent]

I can’t believe this is free. Keep it up Brandon, your lectures are some of the most helpful things ever

[notgate]

"it depends" just so happens to precede 98% of the answers to all questions I asked in college

[UdyKumra]

Can we get a video where Brandon explains the character types? That sounds like a really interesting topic but it’s not been in past lectures and I’d love to learn more about it.

[Rhadagar]

In which, a very quality human teaches us helpful stuff about writing for free while praising the sun!

Thanks for these. :)

[antoinemonks]

Inspiration, aspiration, exploration? I've never heard of this in connection with writing before. I can kinda guess what they mean but it'd be nice to get a breakdown:) Great video as usual.

[jakehopkins]

Thanks! I think it's great that you do this, it's so rare for an author to give this level of insight, but so wonderful that you do. Keep it up!

[mattmiller]

I just love Brandon so much. Thank you for these

[GrandmasFolly]

I don’t write but I love watching these to understand the thought process. Thank you, Mistborn.

[LOSTlife]

I like how the video's thumbnail looks like a GTA IV loading screen.

[DanteLMM]

I freaking love that shirt, I had to repeat the video because it call my atention a little bit longer than it should

[paulb]

Praise the Sanderson. Have you ever seen something so grossly insightful?

[BooksLucyKing]

Thank you! I've started to write recently and these videos help me so much 🙂

[therae]

Is it sane reading two books from this man in the span of 20 days, I think it's not, i'm not fine, but all I know is that I'M BUYING THE THIRD

[ArielBenichou]

Thank you Brandon, and thank you team for this great content!

[JohnnyValmaggia]

Completely off topic, but that's a good sports coat, Brandon. Screw the Sun, Praise the Coat.

[m.c.darwin]

Yooo that praise the sun shirt!! Make a review of the Dark souls series please!

[MrAntares]

I think these videos are too sharply cut/edited. It's a bit jarring and doesn't feel natural.

[CharroArgentino]

Don't overthink that much about structures, "aspiration, inspiration, exploration" is cataloging characters in a way that limits them too much. Even if you could argue that every single character can fall into them, you'll find that many would be a little bit of a, bit of b, and a lot of c, because just like everything, things work in spectrums, trying to give everything a specific tag creates more problems that it resolves, you're limiting yourself by trying to structure your characters that much.