THE SCRIBBLERS TOOLBOX

Welcome to the personal website of me, Jesse Alexander. It’s a home for my ever-expanding collection of screen scribbling tips, tools, observations, and topical ephemera for fellow creative types to peruse, use, disseminate, or disregard. Selections from this blog are also free on Substack. Subscribe to receive a fave weekly post sent to your inbox.

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A Union Is Not Step One
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A Union Is Not Step One

Uggh. The hard lesson from the closure of Ubisoft Halifax, leverage first, union second. Some subjective observations earned via recent WGA strike actions. Oof.

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Vibe Coding an AI Scene Analyzer
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Vibe Coding an AI Scene Analyzer

I built a tool that analyzes screenplay scenes using my own methodology. Pulled from the stuff I've been posting on my blog. It took an afternoon. And I don't know how to code.

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Extracting vs. Building
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Extracting vs. Building

An entire generation is being trained to think real money will come from controlling eyeballs, not creating stories.

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The Way of The Screen Scribbler in 2026
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The Way of The Screen Scribbler in 2026

Miyamoto Musashi wrote his Dokkōdō as a personal operating system. Strip away the swords and the duels, and his rules apply to screen scribblers seeking a productive creative life in 2026.

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Heroic Framing
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Heroic Framing

Psychologists call it narrative identity. When you frame yourself as the protagonist, motivation, resilience, and mental health rise in concert.

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Craft a Category of One
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Craft a Category of One

How creators can protect their work from the new generation of AI powered counterfeiters.

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When Madness Feels Like Home
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When Madness Feels Like Home

Your creative routine might look insane to everyone else, and that's totally cool. I spent much of the 2000s scribbling TV shows while selling spec scripts. My wife and kids wondered if I'd ever sleep normal hours. But every scribbler knows, a creative routine worth anything rarely resembles balance.

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