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Intentional Thematic Reversal
- Brandon designed the Mistborn trilogy so book two (the harder part) came first in concept, forcing a reversal of expectations.
- Building and maintaining an ideal is intentionally harder and more interesting than simply overthrowing it.
Spot And Manage Your Writing Tells
- Writers develop unconscious 'tells' such as repeated gestures or words that reappear across works.
- Tracking and highlighting these tells during revision helps you ration or eliminate overused patterns.
Turning A Writing Quirk Into A Character Trait
- Mary used 'blinking' often and Dan used 'nodding' so much that Mary joked his characters had tardive dyskinesia.
- She then gave a character that condition as a playful nod to the tell.