Weekly roundup

Brandon Sanderson teaches a creative writing course at BYU, and all the lectures can be watched here.
Phoebe North makes a finishing stamp for her debut novel Starglass.
What If by XKCD answers “what would happen if the Earth’s surface were slid around by 90 degrees, putting our current North and South Poles on the equator”. The climate scientist in me seriously geeked out over this thought experiment.
Ferrett Steinmetz shares his Guide to Cons for socially anxious writers.
I’m reading the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and so far I love it to pieces: “A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs …”