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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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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The Hawksian Method for Screen Scribblers
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The Hawksian Method for Screen Scribblers

When I worked with Alex Kurtzman and the late, great Roberto Orci, I watched them do something unusual with their early drafts. Before the action lines, before the scene descriptions, before the translation into screenplay form, they often created a version that was dialogue only.

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When Seoul Beats Burbank
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When Seoul Beats Burbank

The Hollywood Guilds still think the threat is AI. The real threat is a kid in Korea with an iPhone and NanoBanana.

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Your Short Film Needs a Side Hustle
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Your Short Film Needs a Side Hustle

If you're going to pour your time, money, and creative energy into a short film for a class, why not make it capable of doing more than collecting dust on Vimeo?

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The AI Excuse
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The AI Excuse

Industries need a villain, and they’re reaching for the robots.

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The Rise of the Post-Cinema Studio: EDGLRD
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The Rise of the Post-Cinema Studio: EDGLRD

EDGLRD is building a lifestyle brand with its own production tools inside the walls. Creator studios will merge entertainment, fashion, and social identity into a single offering.

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