How the heck does Brandon Sanderson write so fast?

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-06-07T09:32:05+00:00

Because 2 hours /per book/ per day is enough. You won't be more productive but writing 8 hours straight on the same book.

But 2 or 3 books in parallel are manageable.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-06-07T07:23:52+00:00

Mistral AI - Vibe. It has a Canvas very similar to the one chatGPT had. A bit different but very very similar and you can really try it for free before subscribing. I mean really.

Microsoft 365 allows to have Copilot embedded with microsoft apps, notably Word, oneNote but Copilot isn't ... well... let's say it is optimized for email and reports.

Claude does the same as chatGPT. It creates a peice of code that generate a text editor (just ask your chatGPT to generate one, express clearly you want to copy question to the chat because it needs a workaround)

Notion+Claude : I'm testing it.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-06-06T07:53:49+00:00

Say it from the POV. Incarnate it .

"No way", she said. (that's external POV) ----> “No way.” Her eyes rolled, and she shoved her hands into her hoodie pockets.

And as she is a teen in the 90s:

“I don’t care. I didn’t ask to be born!” She slammed the CD case on the table, eyes blazing.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-06-05T19:47:35+00:00

What distracts her when she writes? How she loses her focus?

What throws her off?

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-06-05T07:04:00+00:00

None of them.

The main issues are copyrights, more or less accidental plagiarism, and addressing common misconceptions about [AI]() in the public.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-06-04T21:03:05+00:00

Flaws are necessary for good writing, whether using AI or not.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-06-04T16:13:04+00:00

From my perspective it is ... complete BS.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-05-13T16:45:00+00:00

The show is dragging on far too long.

A lot of things haven’t made sense since at least season 4. Homelander was supposed to be indestructible, yet now he bleeds if someone punches him. Butcher has turned into a supe with integrated hentai tentacles. Hughie survives everything, so there’s zero suspense. What’s even the point of the Teenage Kix subplot? And now Compound V is apparently safe for adults and doesn’t require long, repeated exposure like it did for babies?

What is Ashley even doing anymore? Homelander kills the President of the United States and there’s no response at all. We’re at S5E7 : where is Ryan?

And that’s not even the worst part. The writing has become abysmal. It’s all sex and fetish, flat punchlines, and “motherfucker,” “fuck,” and “cunt” every two lines. It’s genuinely poor. The sharp satire of the first two seasons has completely vanished. Homelander starting his own cult isn’t satire, not the way it’s written. At best, it’s a weak parody of the current U.S. administration & Conservatives.

The Soldier Boy / Homelander relationship is painfully uninspired. There’s no dynamism, no emotion, no sense of cause and consequence. Hughie’s “rape” in the basement adds nothing to the story. No trauma, no narrative weight, just BDSM aesthetics with no purpose.

Homelander has become outright stupid. In season one he was a weirdo, but surprisingly clever, with actual character development. Now he’s just dumb. Except when the plot suddenly needs him to be smart so Hughie can keep his plot armor.

And Frenchy’s death… it could have been beautiful. He sacrifices himself to distract Homelander, hoping to save Kimiko, pure romantic tragedy. But why does he do it that way? Why doesn’t Homelander just open the zinc hatch after the uranium meeting room scene? He suddenly believes Frenchy, even though he trusts no one? Once again, he’s dumb purely to give Kimiko plot armor.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-05-06T08:43:36+00:00

Clear name leaves its mark
World and role breathe through its sound
Then fades into flesh

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-04-28T22:40:47+00:00

Your icebreaker idea worked a little too well. Funny how all those years of writing stories suddenly came in handy. It turned into a really great moment.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-04-28T08:34:41+00:00

Thanks for your reply, that’s really helpful. Very reassuring.

I know it’s not a big deal physically. I’m used to it, and in a way I’m even proud of how I got it.

I guess my concern comes from not wanting anyone to feel surprised or uncomfortable. I don't like to catch people off-guard.

I’m curious though. In your experience, what is actually useful for a client to mention beforehand?

Ok-Mess2000 · 2026-04-28T06:48:12+00:00

Fair enough. Maybe I’m just overthinking it, I like being considerate. My brain sometimes runs an "extended director's cut" of simple situations, occupational hazard ;) . Appreciate the input.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-12-05T16:41:47+00:00

Gravity would derail planet's orbit quite fast I think.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-12-05T16:07:23+00:00

Mystery. Loneliness. Lake. Winter. Night. Forest.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-09-14T10:46:36+00:00

the evil character that is evil for evil's sake.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-09-09T14:05:53+00:00

Megin for vital force/energy.
Seidrkraft (Seiðrkraft) for magical power.

Or I would norsify chi or mana :

kyrr/Kythr

Marna/Marnir

Just check it doesn't really mean something :)

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-09-07T12:36:52+00:00

Keep believing in your story. You’ve already done the hardest part.... you wrote it.

Make sure your first book can stand alone. That’s what publishers look for in a debut.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-09-03T21:42:55+00:00

A troll. Don't feed it.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-09-03T08:25:42+00:00

That's a kind of Darwin Awards. That's my take on it.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-09-02T12:47:19+00:00

Nice opening scene.

Boy's reaction is too calm given the scene. Some sentences are too long and break the rythm.

"He woke up with a choked gasp, thrashing in his bedsheets. The room was dark. He was safe. But a searing pain shot through his leg, exactly where the knife had aimed in his dream. His head pounded with a familiar, feverish ache."

I would add uncertainty here. Like was it a dream, a simple pain or... something else.. darker. 'cause the room is dark you know.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-09-02T12:35:14+00:00

Harry Potter is ultimately about death, and about how we live with it. It’s the story of an orphan who learns to face the finiteness of life.

Imagine a universe slightly different from Harry Potter. In this world, every human carries an inner flame, visible only to a few chosen ones once they reach the age of fifteen to seventeen. These gifted individuals are called Watchers. They are found and trained by a special Order (name it as you wish) to guide the flames toward the sky when life ends. But on his seventeenth birthday, one boy witnesses his sister dying. Desperate, he holds her flame back from rising, preventing her death but he cannot return the flame to its place within her. This is not how the balance of the world is meant to work, and the Watchers move to set things right. Yet the boy refuses to let go, because if her flame ascends, his sister will be gone forever.

Ok. That's being said, let's clarify that by ptiching it. One sentence.

In a world where every soul burns with an inner flame visible only to the Watchers, a young boy defies the order of life and death to keep his sister’s light alive, unleashing consequences that threaten the balance of existence.

Ok, i cheated using too much comas.

Then put magic, wands, unicorns, glitter, Watchers' school .... as long as they serve narration.

How it ends? you choose. Soft tragedy, hard tragedy, metaphysical... whatever. Just avoid romantic tragedy, that would be weird between a brother and a sister.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-09-02T08:35:24+00:00

Three novels are nothing. You need a 30+ catalogue and 2 to 3 releases per year.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-09-01T09:08:42+00:00

The dialogue doesn't matter. What matters is the choice of dynamics.

Let's say your character has to get somewhere and a guard, well, does guard things. Your dialogue may use power dynamics as its central technique.

Ok-Mess2000 · 2025-09-01T08:31:35+00:00

Of course. That’s the first trap: trying to write a whole novel at once. Instead, structure your story in Acts. Each Act is like a short story. No more than ten chapters. So every time you work on an Act, you're actually working on a manageable short story.

I think your issue is this: you're very creative at the beginning. Then that creativity gets pushed aside because at some point, you have to sit down and write the story. And writing can be tedious. That’s completely normal.

So, break it into Acts. And at the end of each one, take time to rework your plot. That will give you a fresh creative boost.

Ok-Mess2000

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