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Cassandra Clare gives writing advice in Writerâs Digest interview
Writerâs Digestpublished an interview with Cassandra Clare right before Christmas and since itâs a really great and insightful interview, I wanted to share it with our readers. Itâs titled âYA Author Cassandra Clare Reveals the Practical Magic Behind Her Bestselling âShadowhunterâ Seriesâ and fans who are budding authors get very useful writing advice. Furthermore, Cassie revealed how sheâŚ
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Cassandra Clareâs first novel was The Beautiful Cassandra, based on Jane Austinâs novel of the same name when she was a child. She didnât know how to write romances, so she just killed the love interest with a falling boulder.
Simon is loosely based off both her best friend and boyfriend from highschool as they were both âbrown-haired, slightly neurotic Jews who played Dungeons and Dragonsâ
Cassandra Clare used to have a wall that she put her notes on but it started to look like a crazy personâs wall, like Emmaâs Wall of Crazy, so she took it down.
Willâs hatred of ducks comes from Cassieâs own experience where she and her friend accidentally fed duck pie to mallards in Hyde Park and upon realizing it, stopped, only for the ducks who had âaquired a taste for fleshâ to chase them all around the park.
She isnât sure if Kit hates ducks other not as he hasnât seen any in the books yet.
She doesnât know what the password for the LA Shadow Market is, she just knew she wanted Kit to flip them off.
Upon being asked why all warlocks seem to have tragic last names (i.e. Fell, Bane, Loss, etc) she said she didnât notice they were tragic, she thought they sounded badass but now sheâs sad and said sheâll have to name one Barnabas Sunshine.
Simonâs fate was PURPOSELY left out of Thule and it is important.
Her adult novels were picked up for a TV show/movie and sheâs much more involved than she was for any TMI productions. (She was EXTREMELY professional in answering this question.)
She tends to start off with a scene in her head rather than a character and then goes from there.
When asked about fight scenes, she quoted; âFight scenes are like love scenes, you always need to know where their hands areâ
She used to make her friends help her choreograph her fight scenes because it was so hard. She says the hardest part for her is adding pockets of dialogue or âpresenceâ of characters amid a fight scene.
She was SO nice, you guys! She was extremely personable and fan-oriented so no one felt rushed when meeting her. Iâm still so thrilled. I won an advanced copy of Red Scrolls of Magic in a trivia game. (The question was which shirt was Simon wearing in City of Ash when he meets Clary outside the comic book store. I have read these books too many times, guys, because I also knew the dialogue surrounding the shirt lol)