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I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.
Brandon Sanderson
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Brandon Sanderson
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: December 19
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