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# ◐ Spell Components

## Craft tip #15: A Question of time
[And it’s running out for you: pacing scenes exactly the way you want them to do](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-15-a-question-of-time)  
Jun 8 • [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](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-11-dragons-laser-guns-and)  
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)](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-12-you-dont-retell-a-fairytale)  
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](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/more-human-than-human)  
May 8 • [Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## This Article is About You. No, Really.
[Or In defense of 2nd person POV](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/this-article-is-about-you-no-really)  
May 1 • [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.](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-9-why-do-i-write-what-i)  
Apr 23 • [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](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-8-your-taste-buds-are-doing)  
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](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-7-a-fairy-a-forest-and)  
Apr 9 • [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!](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-6-three-acts-one-rubber)  
Apr 2 • [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](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-5-how-to-kill-your-darlings-0c4)  
Mar 26 • [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](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-5-how-to-kill-your-darlings)  
Mar 17 • [Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## Craft tip #4: Be the tourist in your own city
[On Setting and creating magical worlds](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-4-be-the-tourist-in-your)  
Mar 10 • [Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## What Morrowind, Loom, and Disco Elysium Teach Writers PART 2 : LOOM
[Part 2: Loom and the Magic of creating magic systems that Rock musically.](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/what-morrowind-loom-and-disco-elysium)  
Feb 24 • [Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/what-can-great-video-games-like-elder)  
Feb 19 • [Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## Craft tip # 3: You Are a Mighty God, Goddess and Deity!
[Now Let's build it in your voice.](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-3-you-are-a-mighty-god)  
Feb 12 • [Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## 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.)](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/craft-tip-2-what-your-character-touches)  
Feb 7 • [Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)

## You can only bribe a federation officer once...
[I literally cannot stress this enough.](https://alexeos.substack.com/p/you-can-only-bribe-a-federation-officer)  
Jan 27 • [Alex Eos](https://substack.com/@alexeos)