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Kal Spriggs is a science fiction and fantasy author, military veteran, gamer, father and husband with over forty books in print. When he's not writing, he likes gaming, hiking, skiing, and enjoying the outdoors.
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Worst Writing Advice: Say Yes To Everything! (opens the original)
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So this might be a controversial one, I dunno. But this is a piece of advice that you hear over and over again. When you first get into writing, there are a certain subset of authors that have made it through agreeing to write pretty much anything. TV series spinoff fiction, ghost writing, short stories… you name it. They got a gig, it went well, they got more offers and they just kept saying yes.Subscribe nowThat’s great and if we were forty years ago, that’s absolute
Writing Tools: Understanding Loss (opens the original)
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There have been a lot of headlines this week about the deaths of Dolly Parton, followed the next day by Tim Curry. They were both of them amazing people and lots of people are doing tributes (and a few are trying to tear them down because it’s easy to punch dead people who can’t hurt you back).I’m not going to talk about them, I’m going to talk about the interesting things that you as an author can learn about the event. People’s emotions are on full display, and I’ve seen grown men shed tears a
Writing Tools: Improvise, Adapt, Overcome (opens the original)
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I started my morning going to wake my computer up from sleep mode. It spun up, but the screens remained off. I figured it was a graphics card issue or something, I’d saved my writing works in progress the night before, so it was mostly an irritation rather than a worry about losing anything as I restarted it.Everything came up after restart, I went right into things, and then a bit later, windows explorer started going a bit wonky. So, now irritated a bit more, I saved and closed everything out
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