Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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0:00 Intro
0:10 Brandon Threatens Me
1:20 Who is Brandon Sanderson?
2:00 Good writers borrow, great writers steal
6:00 Telling the same story twice
11:50 What inspired Yumi?
13:20 Combining writing style with tropes
14:30 new writers
17:00 when Brandon wrote something new
17:30 The 3 inspirations for the Stormlight Archives

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Tim Hickson
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Tim