Looking for a Brandon quote

[Glamdring804]

I seem to recall reading a Brandon quote somewhere that goes along the lines of:

"Often times, the best way to figure out how to write a seen the correct way is to write it the wrong way first."

I'm 99% certain this isn't the exact quote, but I can't find the original. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Thanks.

[+Extesian he/him]

2 hours ago, Glamdring804 said:

I seem to recall reading a Brandon quote somewhere that goes along the lines of:

"Often times, the best way to figure out how to write a seen the correct way is to write it the wrong way first."

I'm 99% certain this isn't the exact quote, but I can't find the original. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Thanks.

Could it be this?

Quote

• Brandon: Basically, the best way for me to rekindle inspiration is to write a scene poorly and throw it away. That gets my mind working on how to actually fix the problem. Writer’s block almost always goes away after I’ve tried a scene in a couple of different ways, sometimes from different perspectives, sometimes with wildly different 'takes’ on the scene. I try to shake things up in a few of the takes.

If that doesn’t work, then I look back and see if there’s a fundamental problem with one of the characters. That’s often how it is, as I 'grow’ my characters. (I plan in detail plots and worlds, but let my characters develop in a more natural way.)

Source

 

[Pagerunner he/him]

It sounds familiar. Have you checked through the Mistborn 1 annotations? It might have something to do with when he had originally written Vin as a boy.

The other bells it rings are when Brandon was writing Liar of Partinel, or even Wheel of Time. Liar, he finished the book, and didn't like it; if you search for "Dragonsteel" on his website, you'll get a few posts about that. While he was finishing up the Wheel of Time, he would throw out something he had worked on to rewrite it.

Push comes to shove, if you really can't find it, this seems like the sort of thing you could tag him in on Reddit, and he'd come along and share some thoughts. Just get a new quote entirely!

[Glamdring804]

1 hour ago, Pagerunner said:

It sounds familiar. Have you checked through the Mistborn 1 annotations? It might have something to do with when he had originally written Vin as a boy.

The other bells it rings are when Brandon was writing Liar of Partinel, or even Wheel of Time. Liar, he finished the book, and didn't like it; if you search for "Dragonsteel" on his website, you'll get a few posts about that. While he was finishing up the Wheel of Time, he would throw out something he had worked on to rewrite it.

Push comes to shove, if you really can't find it, this seems like the sort of thing you could tag him in on Reddit, and he'd come along and share some thoughts. Just get a new quote entirely!

Thanks! I've been meaning to go through the annotations anyway.

[Glamdring804]

3 hours ago, Extesian said:

Could it be this?

 

I think that's it. Thank you.