Sanderson's "Write About Dragons" Creative Writing Course

[Endurant Archivist he/him]

*Note* I posted this over at Reading Excuses but I wanted to make sure everyone who writes doesn't miss out on the fun 

 

So, I'm having a thought here.

 

I'm not certain how many people know about Brandon Sanderson's creative writing course from BYU, but I've been doing some research on the class that he's made available online at Write About Dragons. 

 

A friend and I are going to be taking his course together, but I'd love to have some more people on board to write with us as we create our own 30k word novellas through the course. 

 

Here's the gist. We would start watching through the videos in two weeks (TBA-this is just the best time for me to start) and each week watch 10-11 videos, here, while writing about 3000 new words each week. That's ten weeks. Then have two weeks of make up time at the end of the run, for finishing stories, catching up on critiques, etc. 

 

We'd keep track of our submissions through a group email, like we do here, and email our critiques directly to each other. Keep it simple and straight forward. 

 

At the end of twelve weeks, we've all written another story, gotten some education from Sanderson himself, and gotten to expand our network of fellow writers. 

 

I'm excited to get rolling and hearing what you all think!

 

@Mandamon had a good thought, you can bring your old stories you're working through if you want. But it's definitely geared towards new, fresh stories!

[David Coppercloud]

cool... put me down as a maybe. 

[Endurant Archivist he/him]

I will. Shoot me your email and move this over to the Reading Excuses thread, where most of the information you need will be. I'll be getting more info up their today, so keep an eye out. 

 

Looking forward to this class!

[SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him]

My friend and I are thinking about writing a book together, I will talk to him and get back to you, probably later tonight. I'll flick my email to you via PM. Also if we do do it then I would like to apologise in advance because neither me or him know how to technology. It makes things over the interwebs... difficult. 

[Endurant Archivist he/him]

If you have trouble with tech, email me and I'll do what I can. If you need, I can upload your submissions for you, as is, to the Google Folder. But post those questions to the Reading Excuses forum, we'll take care of it there!

[Helwar he/him]

I didn't know this existed. 

 

Well, I knew BS was a teacher and all of that... But I didn't knew the lessons were freely uploaded to the internet... I'm interested in this!

[Endurant Archivist he/him]

Go ahead and post on the forum thread listed above, then PM me your email, we'll get you included!