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C.L. Clark

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C. L. Clark is a BFA award-winning editor and Ignyte award-winning author of several books, including The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost trilogy), Fate's Bane (a novella), and Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf (an Arcane novel). When she’s not writing, she’s trying not to throw her kettlebells through the wall. Her work has appeared in various SFF venues, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tor.com, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Sign up to her newsletter for updates and bonus materials. ...more

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C.L. Clark The advice I most want to give to writers changes periodically, but what has been on my mind recently is this:

Don't flatten the world we live in by in…more
The advice I most want to give to writers changes periodically, but what has been on my mind recently is this:

Don't flatten the world we live in by insisting on remaining "unproblematic" or insisting that the books you read (or the books published) be unproblematic or morally unblemished. Don't toss out classics because they were written in a time of racism, as if they have nothing else to teach us. Don't become so dogmatic about a "correct" moral stance that your story becomes a watered down polemic with characters whose complexity is as deep as a teaspoon.

And please, please, please, don't explain every thought and occurrence in the characters' head before they act on it. Especially the obvious ones.

Also, read older books. It's good to know your contemporaries, but it's also good to not sound exactly like them.(less)
C.L. Clark Hi! Glad you're enjoying The Unbroken! In theory, Book 2 is supposed to come out in March 2022, but I have a feeling it'll over shoot that. Probably s…moreHi! Glad you're enjoying The Unbroken! In theory, Book 2 is supposed to come out in March 2022, but I have a feeling it'll over shoot that. Probably some time in 2022, though.(less)
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New Blog at Honing the Blade!

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“You don't find a life. You have to make one, with the people around you and the causes you put your strength into.”
C.L. Clark, The Unbroken

“As it whistles through the mountains, as it tickles blades of grass, as it pulls me from my bed, again, the wind, it cries your name.”
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“She was here because she was a soldier. A fighter. She didn't know anything else, and she was good at it...It would be the death of her, but she'd always expected that.”
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“Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?”
Anthony Burgess

“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”
George Orwell, Burmese Days

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.”
John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”
Albert Camus, The Rebel

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
Kahlil Gibran, The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul

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