How I stay Organized-Brandon Sanderson 

Good luck!

this is for real?

Quite sure 70000 words are not possible in 48 minutes even if you had the fastest fingers in the world...

Lolol not me, you guys! I was joking about Brandon saying he writes a little bit every day, when in actual fact, he buzzsaws through narrative faster than anyone.

When this happens "Time Dilation" occurs but only for Brandon. There's also a few writers who experience a "slower than normal relative time..." which I wasn't aware of their existence until I read the other replies to this comment. 😉😅🤷‍♀️

Haha, they are triplings and the world does not know.

Just like Prestige

Thanks

Yea he even made clear in this video that he writes at least for eight hours.

yeah, "a little bit" - 8 to 10 hours a day lol

Rooting for you!

Keep doing your best and have fun with it. You have our support

Only if you have a good idea. We've got loads of twilight's and court's out there already.

@@AERallert proof of how popular they are. If they did write one they'd make dollars that's for sure.

You got this!!

Don’t be daunted man, I just started writing last April and I’ve already finished two novels. I’m not a great writer like Brandon Sanderson, but finishing books is more about making yourself sit down and do it every day than anything else. You can do it!

@@jimmychurch9588 thank you my friend, that gives me hope. And congrats on completing two novels! That's fantastic!

You’re welcome buddy, and thank you!

What kind of stories do you want to tell?

@@brouwjonI have a few rough outlines and partial drafts for a couple of Historical Fiction novels (with light fantastical elements) and a plan for an Epic Fantasy series that I have yet to fully flesh out an outline for.

It's just discipline not motivation. It's all about following a schedule. You'd be surprised. If you make writing a habit, it stops feeling like work and your brain adjusts to to it well enough such that you are able to keep it up.

I agree! I’m enjoying watching Brandon‘s RU-vid career grow!

Same lol. I can't stop starting things.

Just curious, are they all in active progress? Or are a bunch of them stalled while you moved on to new projects?

@@ckannan90 one day I'm brainstorming on one, and another the next. When it comes to writing chapters though, only one 😂😂

Don't do that, man. You ain't going to finish one that way. Stall the others off.

He has actually addressed like almost all those topics, the problem is it’s spread out across the many live streams he’s done in the last 18 months and there’s no easy way of finding them without simply watching it all lol.

Thats what I came here for too!! Find anything?? Any tips or things you use ?

Probably

One Final Gift was a beautiful way to end the last part. Perfection.

Instead of beer, then go out for a Coke with him!

Instead of a Coke, go out for a Sprite with him. #utahlife

Scrivener is great for organizing too

Something he talks about a lot is finding what works *for you*. You don't have to write in 4-hour chunks. That's just what works best for him. You might do best with 2 or 2.5 hour chunks. And that's fine. Try scheduling two 2-hour chunks instead of one 4-hour chunk and see how that works.

Rothfuss is the writer of style. He suffers on every word...his books are examples of poetry in prose. Sanderson is different cause he doesn't care about all those beautiful things and words. The Sanderson's strength is UNIQUE, DEATAILED WORLD AND INTERESTING CHARACTERS

Honestly, a decent writing goal could be something like 500w a day, some days that means you will finish your writing goal in 10 minutes, other days it will take you a full hour, but it's a good place to start. You'll average about 15000 words a month at this pace so about 10 months for your average book draft, BUT that's only if you get into the bare minimum, the most important thing is to just sit down and start writing. Even if the story you start working on doesn't go anywhere you will learn more with 500 words a day than you will with 500 videos about writing a week.

Flis P.J. 1 hour ago said: "Zim is another offline wiki notepad, maybe even better than Wikidpad [the one brandon mentions in the video], though it has a sort of "Linux" or "Unix"-like mentality to it, which can be a bit off-putting at first. But if you're a nerd, go ahead and give it a try."

Very very hard on the eyes I had to listen and not watch.

Lol I didn't even notice

General Kenobi

He likes to sleep in really late, so he probably gets up around 11:00 am, hence the late nights.

He gets up at noon, then writes from 1 to 5 pm, then he has time for his family until 10 pm, when he writes until 2 am, then he relaxes for 2 hours (books, video games) and goes to sleep at 4 am. P.S.I'm obsessed with schedules of successful writers :)

@@fankaoliviilivki Is he free on weekends?

@@willytonjc yes, at least I take that from this video.

Although I am typically very skeptical of open source programs on less than secure websites... We'll see.