Hi Brandon.
I am a huge fan of your work. A few years ago a friend introduced me to the Mistborn series and since then I have a vampiric urge for your work. Thank you for building this amazing Universe of Cosmere.
I play Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder with my friends. I have a lot of notes and detailed descriptions of each session we played. It is like a big jigsaw puzzle. I wanted to write a book based on the campaign. Not to publish but just to pass around and for record keeping in novel format along with using these jigsaw pieces to play out the story as a GM.
When you have your ideas and when you jot them down, how do you actually start putting those jigsaw pieces together? Do you mostly spend time on planning or do you just look at notes and go with the flow?
PS: As you may have noticed, English isn’t my first language. I will increase my vocabulary!
I’m a planner, but that doesn’t work for everyone. Some like it to be more organic. But since you already have the pieces, let me suggest this:
Identify the most important moments in the story. Those “stand up and cheer” moments–or the ones that feel like a punch to the gut. Build your outline around those. What pieces are necessary for those important moments to have the impact they demand? What things might be distractions? What things would be good to include, but not needed?
Try to build your story so that you are pointed toward the moments of incredible power, emotion, and connectivity.
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