What’s your inspiration?
It really depends on the book. If you want to know the inspiration for the Mistborn books, you can Google “Sanderson’s First Law”. It’s an essay I wrote about how I came up with the magic system. That’ll help you see where some of the ideas came from and how I take them and use them.
What about The Stormlight Archive?
Stormlight, the original inspiration was the storm of Jupiter. The big storm that rotates around Jupiter, and I wanted to do something that had a perpetual storm like that.
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