About Allison Pang
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Hello Kitty Connoisseur.I write the Abby Sinclair UF series, published by Pocket Books, the IronHeart Chronicles and the ongoing Fox & Willow webcomic at Sad Sausage Dogs. Represented by Jess Regel of Helm Literary.
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Jun
14
The Sixth Sense
Posted in Connor, grumpy as fuck, mornings
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You know, I’d like this to be about how I can talk to dead people, or see into the future or that I’ve got massive powers of telekinesis. (Okay, actually I do think I have a touch of clairaudience and I’m pretty sure I’ve done a little astral travel now and then. And I’ve *definitely* had sleep paralysis, but I don’t think that counts. Either way, I digress). But no. This is more along the lines of how my kids know when I’m trying to sleep in. You know, when you’ve been up until 2 or 3 either writing, or editing, or reading, or playing WoW or whatever. And you’re thinking, well at least tomorrow is Saturday. I can sleep in. But, no. No, you can’t. It’s 6 am, and I hear a “thud, thud, thud, thud” coming down the hallway. “Mom. Will you come downstairs with me?” “No. I’m…
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Mar
12
Frustration
Posted in craft, critiques, frustration, genre, grumpy as fuck, pov, writing
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I had a million other things I wanted to talk about today, or this week, even, but work has completely overwhelmed me. I’m barely keeping my head above water between the Exchange Migration and the ISO 20K draft work I’m doing. Throw in a kid with strep and a time change and we’ve got quite the party happening. I’m still writing – not always getting that 1000 done. Most of the time I still do, but there have been a few nights where I’ve let it go, just too mentally exhausted to even look at another computer screen. When I’m rereading the same sentence five or six times, I know it’s time to crash. So, in the meantime I decided to try editing up my first chapter again – it’s been awhile and I’m still writing the story (up to Chapter 17 now…maybe ten left? hard to say…) and sent…
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Feb
28
Mini Plot Rant
Posted in grumpy as fuck, rant, writing
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Ha ha ha – figures – I write about plotting vs pantstering and my muse comes back and decides to bite me in the ass. I’ve been cruising along ok until now and the plot has taken a twist that I didn’t expect. The scene I’m writing now was supposed to be a minor plot point – only it’s completely taken over the chapter – which is ok, but not really what I had in mind. I’ve got characters coming in from all over the place, many of which are not being very consistent to how they were in earlier chapters. So then I have to wonder, am I trying to force this thing to happen and the characters are fighting me on it? Or is it that *I’m* the one fighting it? Either way, it sucks. I only wrote 334 words last night before I gave up in disgust.…
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