![]() Most days, he wakes up at 1 pm, exercises, and writes for four hours. His schedule is budgeted down to the minute, months out, to maximize the time he spends, rather counter-ergonomically, on the couch, typing away. The concept of a vacation confuses Sanderson, he once said, because for him the perfect vacation is more time to write-vocation as vacation. Graphomania is the name of the condition: the constant compulsion to get words out, down, as much and as quickly as possible. It’s not that Brandon Sanderson can’t write. “Well, we have a piece coming up in LDS Living,” he told me. As far as I can tell, Sanderson, who has been topping bestseller lists for the better part of the 21st century, has not been written about in any depth by any major publication ever. ![]() On the other, the ignorance goes far beyond WIRED. ![]() Sanderson has millions upon millions of fans all over the planet it doesn’t matter that some losers at a single magazine (even if it is one of the nerdier ones) had never heard of him. Nobody had the first clue who or what I was talking about. How’d he do it? Why now? Is Brandon Sanderson even a good writer? On the day of his record-breaking Kickstarter campaign-$42 million of that $55 million-I came to the WIRED offices ready to gossip. By Sanderson’s estimation, he’s the highest-selling author of epic fantasy in the world. For a writer of young-adult-ish, never-ending, speed-written fantasy books, it’s huge. ![]() This is obviously a lot of money for anyone. ![]() Most years, Brandon Sanderson makes about $10 million. ![]()
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