@SarahAllenBooks

Award-winning author: WHAT STARS ARE MADE OF, MONSTER TREE, etc. Making silly sketches & poems & snuzzling cats. Better @ Substack (https://sarahallen.substack)

 Orlando, FL
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Joined August 2009
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My little newsletter is growing fast! We've got insider interviews, teacher resources, book recs, and more! Come join me? sarahallen.substack.com/
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So...in July, something happened that hasn't happened in ten years and I went sort of insane about it for a minute... sarahallen.substack.com/p/so…
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Something I've been working on is teaching myself illustration, which is a little intimidating and scary. But Rachel Michelle Wilson has given her top advice for illustrators who started as writers! Her thoughts about diving in to illustration are SO good! sarahallen.substack.com/p/th…
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Only three of these note cards left to go. Three scenes/chapters. Then this book is written!! It will be *underwritten* and need tons of fleshing out and revising, but that's what next drafts are for! And in the meantime, we're so close to the end!
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What song or singer brings you back to your most core younger self? Mine is clearly evidence of how edgy and hip I am. sarahallen.substack.com/p/re…
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Congratulations to him for having the biggest tiny pile of dead skin.
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What book, film or TV character over 45 is your very favorite?
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You guys, I am very proud of myself, I just did something* I am absolutely petrified of, that overwhelms and freaks me out so much every time I have to do it that I want to puke. But I did it! And I'm not even dead! *see: buying plane tickets
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"What advice would you give to writers who want to at least try social media to build their career but feel weird about posting?" sarahallen.substack.com/p/th…
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Just a few #library displays I've done lately that I'm proud of 😊
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This year, I decided that my main author platform social media goal was consistency. (I'm talking Insta and TT, not here. Here I'm a squatter.) Didn't matter if I posted meh stuff, if it got no views, but I WOULD do 1-2 posts a week no matter what. I HATE that it's working.
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Are you a plotter or a pantser? Honestly, the longer I do this writing thing, the less clear-cut the answer feels. Here's what I've actually noticed about my process after several novels — 🧵
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So, back to the outline. Fill in the holes. Push it further. Then enthusiasm kicks in again and I'm back to drafting. Outline → draft → outline → draft. It's my pendulum process! And now I know its a feature, not a bug. It's just...my process. 🤷‍♀️
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I'm at almost 50k words on my current WIP and just swung back to outlining mode. But I'm almost to That Scene and I'm so freakin excited! What about you — plotter, pantser, or somewhere on the pendulum? 👇 (I wrote more about all this here: sarahallen.substack.com/p/i-…
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I've sometimes felt like I was doing something wrong, because I never quite felt like a true plotter or a pantser, because my brain just kept jumping between the two. Now I treat that like a feature, not a bug! What about you? Are you more of a pantser or a plotter?
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I just want you all to know that I made a robot display at the library and he is very cute :D
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I just did a middle school visit and an eigth grader wearing thick liner and a choker necklace told me I was the "coolest author ever" so I think the Jedi mind-trick worked!!
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Sarah Allen (MONSTER TREE out now!) retweeted
Laura Stegman, author@LauraStegmanMay 5
Happy 2nd Birthday to The Chambered Nautilus, a #middlegrade #STEAM tale of the power of friendship & a magical carnival ride modeled on the spiral-shaped sea creature. #writingcommunity #kidlit #teachers #librarians #writerscommunity #mglit #authorsoftwitter #educators
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