Reading Slumps: Tips to Crawl Your Way Out
Reading isn’t something you win; it’s something you enjoy, so don’t let other people’s “rules” dictate how you do that.
Read More...Author: allisonpearl
Fiction author of the 'Love and Danger in St. Claire' series.
Why Do Book Heroes Become So Unbearable? Writing Protagonists Who Don’t Have Main Character Syndrome.
Why does our love for one character transcend thousands and thousands of pages while another has us rolling our eyes and crying oh, the insufferableness by book three?
Read More...Was the Book Really Better? Why the Movie vs. Book Argument May Not Be a Fair Debate
Most of us readers have made the “the book was better” declaration once—or five hundred times—but lately, I’ve started to question it. I can’t help but ask myself: Was the book really better? Or was it just different?
Read More...Am I in a Cult? What examining cults in fiction can reveal about the real-world intricacies of belief, control, and influence.
Seeing how far these fictional cults go to control people highlights the true litmus test of a cult: motive.
Read More...Villains: Those We Love, Hate, and Don’t Want to Live Without
In a lot of ways, the villain makes the hero, and there’s something so satisfying when a hero meets his match.
Read More...World Building: Don’t let it read like a textbook
I am by no means an expert in fantasy writing or world-building, but my lifelong love for the genre has led me to the conclusion that while there is no right way to build a fictional world, a wrong way is to give your reader a textbook instead of a story.
Read More...Writing your resume: It sucks, but you gotta do it Part 2.
Reading job postings while crossing your fingers in hopes that it’s not a fake listing or another phishing scam, while trying to get the magic formatting formula that will allow your document to get past the dreaded Applicant Tracking Software (ATS) troll guarding the hiring manger’s inbox is like walking barefoot and blindfolded down a thousand-foot hallway floor covered with a cornucopia of loose Lego
Read More...Writing your resume: It sucks, but you gotta do it.
What everyone seems to agree on is that the current job market is a stress-inducing and time-sucking mess.
Read More...The Horror Genre: I can’t stay, but it’s a fun place to visit.
Thrillers and Suspense stories may keep you up at night, but Horror will haunt your dreams.
Read More...How I’d do it: Could Allison Pearl get away with murder?
The devil may be in the details, but Allison Pearl is not.
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Allison Pearl 