Alex Eos | Substack
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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 # 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
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
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
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
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
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
What Morrowind, Loom, and Disco Elysium Teach Writers PART 2 : LOOM
Part 2: Loom and the Magic of creating magic systems that Rock musically.
Feb 24 • Alex Eos
What can great video games like Elder scrolls Morrowind, Loom and disco Elysium do to shape our writing?
Part 1: Morrowind — No Quest Markers, No Mercy
Feb 19 • Alex Eos
Craft tip # 3: You Are a Mighty God, Goddess and Deity!
Now Let's build it in your voice.
Feb 12 • Alex Eos
Craft tip #2 What Your Character Touches Tells Me More Than Their Face
(Or: How I Write Characters Who Look Innocent and Still Act Like A**holes.)
Feb 7 • Alex Eos