The Three Pillars of Storytelling—Brandon Sanderson

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[KingDooburu]

YES, the three stories of pillar building! Wait...

[intentionally]

Brandon says it's true:
Conflict is the glue!

[TheEccentricRaven]

I have seen writers defend infodumping, saying but the Hobbit starts slow. They missed that the first chapter of the Hobbit includes both the hook and the inciting incident. Chapter 1 portrays what Bilbo wants and how he's pushed out of his comfort zone, showing his external conflict and internal conflict.

[Grux_ASG]

"Your story is not an encyclopedia"
(Glances at the size of his books)
"Yeah right buddy"

[tristanangayon]

In short conflict is needed to make your story intresting and not boring. You have your character, setting, and plot, but without conflict between each pillars, there will be just a plane encyclopedia.

[wilson]

The three pillars are Wamuu, Esidisi and Kars

[ChrisBurnes]

I wonder what the 3 pillars will be? maybe I'll just skip ahead a little and check the whiteboard.

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!

[Winter_DamonTorrance]

Reading Mistborn: The Final Empire, as I got this notification😌

[knightonart]

Grace us with your wisdom, m'Lord Baradon Sanderos

[louisegoode]

I really appreciate all of the expert writing advice! Thank you!

[josefinehansen]

Thank you, Brandon, for all the free tips and inspiration <3

[Rhadagar]

I’m no writer but these are still darn interesting!

[danaobera]

What a brilliant lecture; easy to understand, fun to listen to and inspiring me to write more.

[dennis_duran]

Holy smokes, I don’t think I’ve ever seen 1.7k+ likes and 0 dislikes. Not a one. Not an accidental one.

[bookyodaianimate]

Great Brandon, for your next topic can you discuss why some beginners struggle to write past their first few chapters and how can they solve it. I have been trying to write using many TOOLS that you have talked about in your lectures. I was originally a discovery writer but it was too bad for me as I was unable to progress after writing my 10, 000 words. Which led me to changing my writing to outlining but even with that I only managed to write the first few chapters. I thought the outline was the issue at first but after reading it again the outline was still good. It would seem that expanding my outline into a story has made me stuck. In the end what I want to ask is that how do you keep the story as interesting as the outline? That is your outline is more interesting than your story itself.

[whitrobinson]

Simple and straightforward. Brilliant advice! Much appreciated!

[StarBoundFables]

Cool! Thank you, Brandon, I just took a whole bunch of notes from this presentation! Cheers 😃🙏🏽

[codysearsmusic]

I saw the board in the back of his other video and immediately started taking notes. Now there’s an explanation.
Life is good rn.

[platonist]

Just finished sixth of the dusk holy crap that was good!

[Ouvii]

No that's wrong

After Santana dies, the three pillarmen are Wammu, Kars, and Esidisi