Craft tip# 16: Promises, Payoffs, and Scary Movies

How Rick and Morty and Scary Movie 6 Pull the Same Trick from the Tool Box

Jun 21•Alex Eos

I Am Not Terry Pratchett, a Doctor, or a Morning Person: An AMA

First and foremost, I am not Terry Pratchett, Thom Yorke from Radiohead, or David Spade.

Jun 15•Alex Eos

Craft tip #15: A Question of time

And it’s running out for you: pacing scenes exactly the way you want them to do

Jun 8•Alex Eos

Craft tip# 14 Bridging The Gap

If your character crosses the bridge it best matter

Jun 1•Alex Eos

May 2026

Bubble Tea Report #5: Extremely Important Bubble Tea Findings

May Bubble Tea report findings

May 24•Alex Eos

Craft tip # 13: Dragons, Laser Guns, and the Sentence You Refuse to Write

Love what you write and Hate what you refuse to write

May 22•Alex Eos

Craft tip #12: You Are Allowed to Be Absurd. You Are Not Allowed to Be Arbitrary

(What Sierra Games Taught Me About Fairytale Retellings)

May 15•Alex Eos

Craft Tip 11: More Human than Human

how writing characters out of your comfort zone makes you stronger

May 8•Alex Eos

This Article is About You. No, Really.

Or In defense of 2nd person POV

May 1•Alex Eos

April 2026

Bubble Tea Report # 4

April Bubble Tea Report: Avocado Tea and Other Dangerous Choices

Apr 30•Alex Eos

Craft tip# 10: "I Do Not Let Characters Beat Death. I Let Them Lawyer Up First."

My own rules about how characters die in my universe.

Apr 28•Alex Eos

Why George R. R. Martin Inspired Me to Finish the God Damn Series

Or How an unfinished empire made me take endings seriously.

Apr 27•Alex Eos

Craft tip# 9: Why do I write what I write?

People ask writers why they write what they write as if the answer will be neat, respectable, and suitable for a panel discussion.

Apr 23•Alex Eos

Starforge Releases Today.

Well.

Apr 16•Alex Eos

Craft tip #8: Your Taste Buds Are Doing More For your Prose Than You Think

Or: How food, culture, and one man's deeply committed gravy sin makes you a stronger writer

Apr 16•Alex Eos

Craft tip 7#: A Fairy, a Forest, and a Destiny Problem:

Why Ocarina of Time Works So Well as a Hero’s Journey

Apr 9•Alex Eos

PSA: AI Comments, Unhinged Energy, and Why Substack Feels Like a Victorian Séance

You know you made it as an author when someone ends a comment with go away.

Apr 4•Alex Eos

Craft tip #6 Three Acts, One Rubber Chicken: What The Secret of Monkey Island Can Teach You About Plot

The Three Act Structure of Piracy!

Apr 2•Alex Eos

March 2026

Bubble Tea Report # 3🧋

On the page

Mar 31•Alex Eos

Write What You Know Was Never Bad Advice. Hubert Selby Jr. Did Exactly That:

A case for writing what you know best.

Mar 30•Alex Eos

Craft tip# 5: How to Kill Your Darlings like a Manic Serial Killer:

Part two: How to dispose of the dead ["scene" ] Body

Mar 26•Alex Eos

Why I Write From Petty Rage

Humor, bureaucracy, and the banana tree that tried to kill my foot

Mar 21•Alex Eos

Craft tip# 5: How to Kill Your Darlings like a Manic Serial Killer:

PART ONE: THE OLD FASHIONED WAY

Mar 17•Alex Eos

Craft tip #4: Be the tourist in your own city

On Setting and creating magical worlds

Mar 10•Alex Eos