Durand Alexander

Screenwriter/Filmmaker
🃏 means I'm being sarcastic

[Durand Alexander @DurandAlexander]

fade out. the end.
113 pages
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[𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗫ᵈᵉᵛ @PH0ENIXdev]

@XLandedIt You mean to tell me I gotta do this shit UNTIL I'M 65? Fuck it, let AI replace us.

[Durand Alexander @DurandAlexander]

😂😂😂

[Courage ꨄ @courage_xo]

@XLandedIt Never give me a taste of freedom again, it hurts too much. 😂"

[🎮 @foreeeeeal]

IF YOU UNPLUG THE WIFI BOX FOR 1 SEC THE WHOLE HOUSE ACT LIKE THEY BOUT 2 DIE YOU'LL SEE PPL COME OUT ROOMS YOU ANIT NVR SEEN BEFORE

[John R. Kyle @JohnKyleAuthor]

@GoIntoTheStory "Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about," he says. "It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style."--Kurt Vonnegut
Only your heart finds this subject.

[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

Nora Ephron: “Don’t write what they want, they don’t know what they want, just make it GOOD.” #screenwriting

[Durand Alexander @DurandAlexander]

@Therealjay__y 😂😂😂

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Scott Van Pelt continues crusade against wrong NBA Draft hats https://t.co/XUZYtY85hJ

[Durand Alexander @DurandAlexander]

the secret to getting a promotion is to not want one apparently.

[Variety @Variety]

Kristen Stewart says she's "so sick" of the studio system in Hollywood:

"It is not designed for artists to express themselves. We’re just really under the thumb of different priorities that don’t align with real dream-making. And I don’t mean to wax poetically because I mean this so very literally, I just don’t think that it’s possible to create sort of radical, vital work under capitalistic parameters." https://t.co/WHK5J1keLd

[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

Stephen Sondheim: “Piece by piece is the only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision’s no solution, everything depends on execution, putting it together, that’s what counts.” #writing

[Sussell Westbrook @thesportsenjoy1]

@mookiealexander The backcourt version is "combo guard", meaning a tweener guard who's too short to be off the ball but isn't enough of a playmaker to run point.

[Nomad042025 @nomad042025]

@whatifalthist Schools, colleges, hospitals, government, big corporates

These
People
Are
Everywhere

[FxCryptoWatch 🇸🇦 🇸🇦 🇸🇦 @FxCryptoWatch]

@csvogue That’s the kind of "lightning in a bottle" success story that makes every indie director keep dreaming..

[Natsuko @Kabs10490]

@WrestlingNewsCo Dude, every single person is different. It’s entertainment. Some like jazz, some like rock n roll. Some like tennis, some like hunting. It’s their choice and no one needs to understand why. 🙄

[Crimson @violetstorm_]

@WrestlingNewsCo It's a soap opera. It's romance. It's action. It's horror. It's a comedy. It's everything rolled into one. I don't understand why something has to be "real" to be enjoyed. Wrestling knows it's fake. Everyone knows it's fake. Doesn't make it any less a treat to watch for many.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

did you know that in most white collar jobs you can just go for a 15-20 minutes walk multiple times a day and they just like don’t care

[Jamie Nash @Jamie_Nash]

SCREENWRITING ACT 2

A note I've given A LOT lately:

DOMINO LOGIC: If the next scene is a choice… you’re in trouble. It should be a consequence.

Some of this goes back to soft Story DNA/loglines. Stories with weaksauce HERO/GOAL/OBSTACLE/STAKES have weaksauce casualty.

[Alyssa Matesic @AlyssaMatesic]

After more than a decade as a book editor, I've finally nailed down the single biggest gap between solid writing and truly great writing.

It all comes down to what the author DOESN'T say.

The best writers in the world know when to leave things unsaid — how to let the empty space between the words do the heavy lifting.

Once you understand this concept, how you approach your writing will change forever.

[Chico Montecristi @tintaxis]

@ElementasSeries Murdered my main character in the first sentence :D

[Becca 🎧 @BeccaRBRoyalty]

Yes, and that shift away from teen culture wasn’t accidental. Streaming and social media collapsed everything into the same space. Teens and adults are now consuming the same content on the same platforms, driven by the same algorithms. And those algorithms are not built for niche audiences, they are built for scale, retention, and ad revenue. So instead of developing teen-specific stars, as we saw in the 90s and early 2000s, when MTV actively segmented youth audiences through shows like TRL, and the heavy rotation of teen pop, creating space for teen culture to develop separately from adults, the industry now pushes whatever can perform across all age groups. That is why “teen music” faded and “viral music” replaced it. That is also why it feels like teen culture disappeared. It didn’t disappear. It just lost its boundaries. Teen culture no longer develops on its own. It gets absorbed into the mainstream in real time.