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The Creative Operating Protocol
A Research-Based Daily Practice for Screen Scribblers and Creative People gifted with ADHD super powers.
Jul 13
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Jesse Alexander
Your Game Team Was Already a Startup
Microsoft cut 3,200 gaming jobs. Four studios out the door. Brutal. Strip away the studio logos and canceled projects. Ask... Could what these teams can…
Jul 10
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Jesse Alexander
TV's Loyalty Crisis Is a Misdiagnosis
The real threat to serialized television is the twenty-month gap. Here's what thirty years of scribbling tell me about the Netflix audience attrition…
Jul 6
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Jesse Alexander
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June 2026
Wants Invent Opinions
A Game Master's note is a scene note in disguise. Fix character wants and the opinions, conflict, and performances will follow.
Jun 22
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Jesse Alexander
Where Should The Plane Land?
Widow's Bay sent me back to a post I served under-cooked. What separates a mystery serial that pays off and one that runs a tab?
Jun 18
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Jesse Alexander
From Screenplay To Screen Playable
My latest LLM experiment has been turning dormant screenplays and TTRPGs into OG text adventures you can play in your browser.
Jun 17
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Jesse Alexander
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The Modular Story Method - Four Reels. One Yarn.
Scribbling is hard. Sometimes around page thirty-five, a first draft's momentum can die. Maybe you keep going. Maybe you don't.
Jun 15
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Jesse Alexander
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Talent Gets You In The Door. Trust Gets You On The Payroll.
Many years of scribble rooms taught me: Those who get hired to work on the stage aren’t always the most talented on the page.
Jun 9
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Jesse Alexander
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Proven. Better. New.
Don't spend your originality solving problems scribblers solved centuries ago. Spend it crafting what audiences haven't seen yet.
Jun 5
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Jesse Alexander
1
May 2026
Auditing Emotional Equity
Why Fans Stay, Why They Leave, and Why Longevity Is Hard to Measure
May 19
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Jesse Alexander
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April 2026
Pivoting Scribbler's AI Psychosis
Gave myself an outlet for AI tool explorations. A website home for multi-layered, recursive disclosure narrative.
Apr 29
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Jesse Alexander
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AI Skips Struggle. Scribblers Shouldn't.
When AI can play every instrument in the orchestra, somebody still needs to be the conductor.
Apr 27
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Jesse Alexander
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