What You Need To Build A World - Brandon Sanderson's Writing Lecture #8 #writing #worldbuilding

I Envision um world building when I sit down to to build my uh World guide what I generally do is I start with my three pillars setting plot uh characters usually setting character plot and I'll make new headings in Microsoft Word and I'll be like all right I'm going to write down all the ideas I've had over

the years as the story has started to build and grow um it's almost like I describe it sometimes like all the individual ideas are like you know atoms bouncing around and sometimes they slam into each other and stick together you have all these individual ideas bouncing around and the book starts to grow from

them like frost growing on a a piece of metal they're just expanding um as these ideas intersect mbor the idea of the hero lost mixed with the idea of what about a story about thieving crew made both of those ideas better for me more exciting I don't think there's a generically kind of um objective better when it comes to

ideas but for me I'm like I didn't want to write this book it was a downer but if that's the world that these characters live in that they can respond against and then you're pulling a heist and who better to Heist than the dark lord who won suddenly both ideas were more interesting to me that's what I'm

looking for and I start writing those down setting character plot everything that I've had for this book