One was where I called a character a “damn fool”. She wrote in replacement suggestions for me to use.
(I was using “damn” and “hell”.) I didn’t consider those curse words but she was “ARR!” However, when I was working on Mystborn, my 14-year-old sister went through it and crossed out all the curse words. I really hate fish sticks.īRANDON: I don’t really curse, so I don’t really have any. But my editors tell me that’s a “once a book” word.īRANDON: Fish sticks. Now my pet word is probably “miasma” or “inchoate”.
He works as a business and technical writer.ĭAVE: As we start our session today, Brandon, I wanted to borrow the approach from inside the Actor’s Studio and ask some general questions that I find fun:īRANDON: My favorite word changes. He also started the Leading Edge magazine at BYU. Dave Doering is the founder of Life, the Universe, and Everything, a conference held annually in Utah.He also hosts the Hugo Award-winning Writing Excuses podcast with Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, Dan Wells, and others. Since then his work has included the Reckoners trilogy, and the Skyward series. Brandon was chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Five books in his middle-grade Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians series were released by Starscape.
Tor also published six books in his Mistborn series, and the first three in the planned ten-volume series The Stormlight Archive. Brandon Sanderson’s first published novel, Elantris, came out from Tor in 2005.Here are selections from the Brandon Sanderson Interview conducted by Dave Doering at World Fantasy Con 2020 on Saturday, October 31.