The Three Pillars of Storytelling—Brandon Sanderson

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

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

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.

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

The three pillars are Wamuu, Esidisi and Kars

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.

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

Grace us with your wisdom, m'Lord Baradon Sanderos

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

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

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

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

Simple and straightforward. Brilliant advice! Much appreciated!

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.

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

I like dystopian, post-apocalyptic or "grimdark" settings because they add all sorts of conflict to the main story. Even going at 2AM for a glass of water in a world where all water is poison and where the government tries to kill you for going out at night has potential for an interesting story. What I don't like is the authors not knowing how to handle those settings.

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

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

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.

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