How to Write a Book Guide

Brandon Sanderson: I tend to keep several different files. One of these are the characters in my book. And then whenever I have a new idea for a character I will go in and modify that entry. And then I have another file that's open. These are just word files that will be these are all the events that I know need to happen. He says he uses Microsoft Word Document Mat tool, which is essentially an outlining tool. The danger of world builders disease when you use anything like this was going to jump on that but it doesn't work that way.