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Interview #905: Brandon Sanderson Talks Fantasy & Film, Entry #6

Helen O’Hara

Are there bits in it where you were aware that it felt like your writing rather than him?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, there are some. For example, Robert Jordan was a Vietnam veteran: he’d been in real battle. My battle training has been watching cinema and reading great books. So my perspective on fight scenes is very different from his. I can’t get that authenticity 100%, and if I try too hard it’s going to feel fake. I have to do the action sequences like I do action sequences. So it’ll flow like cinema rather than having the chaos and insanity of real battle.

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