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## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## Craft tip# 14 Bridging The Gap

### If your character crosses the bridge it best matter

Jun 1•[Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

### May 2026

## Bubble Tea Report #5: Extremely Important Bubble Tea Findings

### May Bubble Tea report findings

May 24•[Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## Craft Tip 11: More Human than Human

### how writing characters out of your comfort zone makes you stronger

May 8•[Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## This Article is About You. No, Really.

### Or In defense of 2nd person POV

May 1•[Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

### April 2026

## Bubble Tea Report # 4

### April Bubble Tea Report: Avocado Tea and Other Dangerous Choices

Apr 30•[Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## Starforge Releases Today.

### Well.

Apr 16•[Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

### March 2026

## Bubble Tea Report # 3🧋

### On the page

Mar 31•[Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## Why I Write From Petty Rage

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

Mar 21•[Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

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

### PART ONE: THE OLD FASHIONED WAY

Mar 17•[Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

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

### On Setting and creating magical worlds

Mar 10•[Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)