Lecture #1: Introduction — Brandon Sanderson on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Lecture #1: Introduction — Brandon Sanderson on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy
Welcome to my first (very blurry - it should be fixed for the next upload) lecture of my BYU 2020 creative writing class. As you probably surmised from the title of the video, I focus on writing science fiction and fantasy. This class was more of an introduction for the rest of the term but I do discuss a few important things: creating writing ...
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