I’m a writer. In the fantasy world I’m currently building, I made scholarship a religion. I was frustrated by the lack of meaning I often found in my studies and disheartened to see how many of my peers found studying stressful. I love learning and wanted to create a society where everyone shared this love. Yet my world failed to provide me with the comfort and reassurance I needed to find meaning and continue writing.
That reassurance, instead, came from another religion—one that I discovered among the pages of Brandon Sanderson’s first Mistborn trilogy.
