Brandon Sanderson Lecture 4: Character Creation Examples Part 2 (6/6)

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Name
Gender, age
2 Passions
Secret, past, and relationships
Personality, quirks, and traits
Goals and motivations

I wish i had a Brandon on my shoulder watching me write and correcting me when i get it wrong.

[redear]

6 - year old who can read minds - Anya from Spy X Family. 17 - year old necromancer who tried to resurrect their parent and failed - Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist.

[ixuvia]

Can't wait to see this stuff continued. Thank you so much for posting, it's the most entertaining learning I've done for a good long while.

[Beansareamagicalfruit]

He sounds so annoyed with some of these lol!

[GustavoSilva-nyjc]

3:24 I actually like this, they laugh about the motivation but they are wrong, reminds me Power from csm "why am i running so desesperately? Why do i feel this pain in my chest? Because of a cat?! What a stupid reason" the smallest things might mean the world to us.

she could be tomboyish, muscular and dirty because of her job which pushes girls and guys away, so almost no friends and lovers and feeling out of place while also loving beauty and feminity but feeling all wrong which torns her inside. Think Brienne of Tarth. Her true passion could be art and beauty, living and bringing joy to life but her job is a harbinger of death.

"Swords are tools made to kill" - Musashi, "this job of killing... there's nothing honorable about it" - Guts. The dichotomy of weapons for self protection and destruction. But weapons possess great beauty too, you would see this passion for beauty in the things she makes, it would be the most beautiful equipment of the city. She could even get into a plot of creating weapons for royalty maybe even under threat.

Her dream for beauty and love could be something she cares while she's stuck in situations out of her control, like that scene of your character creating door lockers. The final scene could be her FINALLY doing some runway modeling, and even getting married, it wouldnt be the end but a delayed beginning.

[improvementTime..]

4:10 he often will nap out his chars like this
but he would go deeper
=
Secret passion
then unique questions for each ques @4:50



4:50 going deeper
= create other chars in their lives that creates friction with them
Or
Things in setting that create friction
Or
Political/Faction to create friction
or
unusual political/religious philosophy that doesn tmeld well with any of th eother passions = creating conflict @6:00 (racist against alien species)
or
what personality type are we looking for?



6:38 want a mix of different chars
Don’t want everyone to be everything
Same with powers and abilities weakness and strengths so they all have different roles they can play



9:13 studying deviant psychological behavior/ personality complexes could help give another layer of variety to work with

9:47 next step have each of these char walk through same scene and notice different things, describe it differently
11:30 show us all of this through what they notice, think and say, without ever info dumping us on their passions, show it through what I said before
“A ward against necromancy on that door…I’ll have to find a back entrance somewhere”
Now we know she’s a necromancer

[GustavoSilva-nyjc]

3:00 Pretty good girl!! Still raw cause we need to know what kind of world is and people in it but okay start. Like westeros and Succession War, fight for a throne but almost totally different story.

[mercuryx]

Don't worry, I'm writing it right now. Thanks to these lectures.

[ReesJB]

I think 2:50 might have just been the origin of Eshonai's story in Words of Radiance.

[AerisNotAerith]

Thank you so much for uploading these!!!

[tamanousJP]

This is so helpful for my books. Cheers!

[davejacob]

damnit, that really would be a great first sentence + conflict.

and the third character also sounds really great.

[GITTSDK]

Am I the only one watching this going "Holy mother of all piranhas, I want to read a book about a 17-year-old necromancer whose zombie father lives in the basement!"

[scotnommensen]

Is there a place where I can find a list and description of all the personality archetype?

[mksartinjr]

8yrs later = 33k watched this.. 420 likes?! C'mon. Everyone just listening to this playlist on loop lol.

[ProxyFilter]

The 6 year old walks past the 52 year old guy in the street and says "WTF, a Trash man, Zen-master, String Theorist?"

[nickanthony]

12 years later and the Bechdel ruined entertainment lol.

[eeMJaii]

Haha the 6 year old is a loose outline of danny torrence ;)

[haxr]

@chris pacheco Really? Where did that some from? O_O