Marcos gabriel

EXPERIMENTS

A collection of writing / creativity tools that are probably only useful to me. But since you've found your way here, feel free to use them.

5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE
Yes - it's 5 O'Clock somewhere ... but can you prove it?Now you can. Click, see where it's 5 O'Clock, and "Cheers" in the local language!

HAUNT TRACKER
Over 10,000 haunted locations, with a searchable map of hotspots.

VOMIT DRAFT
I've often found myself wanting a lightweight screenwriting solution on the go. On any computer, on any OS. I'm a big fan of Final Draft, but it's not like I'm always going to have access to my personal laptop. VOMIT DRAFT is here to fill the void. Simple - just start typing INT or EXT and it'll automatically format. Press TAB and you'll start typing a character name. Hit ENTER and you'll be in the proper margin space for dialogue. Would I write a whole script this way? ABSOLUTELY NOT. But a scene or two, copy and paste into a real program? For sure. Nothing is stored locally, so unless you save it out or copy it, it's gone.

WRITE OR DIE
Okay - you know how sometimes you know you have to get something written, but you just can't do it? You start typing and then start scrolling and then walk around and then get distracted and then you're back where you started? Well, I got tired of that. I decided I wanted a program that would self-destruct if I stopped writing. And that's WRITE OR DIE. Something weird happens when you decide to just start typing and not look back ... you get into a state of flow.. It takes me back to the old typewriter days. Or even my first computer, that was prone to crashing and only had enough memory for 20 pages of text, at which point I'd have to print out, delete the ENTIRE FILE, and just keep going. That's probably why I designed it to look like old-school MS DOS WORDPERFECT 5.1.Start typing. If you stop for 10 seconds, it deletes everything you were working on. No copy, no paste. Gone. After your set amount of time, it'll go into a free-edit mode, where you can take a breath and edit with no pressure. Even copy and paste and save. Start with 5 minutes. Then go to 10. Push even further. Let's see what happens.

COMMIT TO THE BITS
I learned how to write on a typewriter. And then - one day - we got a word processor / typewriter combo with a small LCD screen that would let you edit a few lines of text before it would run out of buffer and commit whatever you were writing to paper. That was it - you had a few lines you could mess with, but once it was on paper, no more editing.
This experiment is meant to simulate that forward progression. It feels good to lock in the words and not look back. When you're done, you can select all and paste it somewhere else.

Whatchu wanna know?

I'm an award-winning Executive Creative Director with 20+ years experience collaborating with studio and entertainment partners, crafting co-branded partnerships, and delivering across social media, broadcast, theatrical, and experiential venues.As a proud Fili-Rican (Half-Filipino, Half-Puerto Rican), I champion diverse storytelling and points of view, leading teams to execute innovative campaigns that engage audiences and connect emotionally.I'm driven by curiosity, always searching for the clever solution to a creative problem, embracing technology and leaning on experience to deliver the good stuff.I help studios, brands, and agencies understand where the story lives, how to coax it out, and how to spread it in the most emotional - and effective - way possible.I dig in deep - I'll mess with the edit on my own, I'll jump into Photoshop and After Effects to design the graphics, I'll get that pitch deck and look book to the finish starting line.
It's a mix of creative and technical skills. I know when things are in and out of scope. I know how to accomplish the hard asks - and I know where to turn to for the impossible ones.I speak filmmaker because I am one. I'm repped at UTA as a screenwriter. Got a movie on Netflix called "The Old Ways" if you wanna check it out.Other interests? Learning sleight of hand card tricks, playing super complicated boardgames, and practicing my barbershop skills on any member of the family that'll have me.Oh - and sometimes I chat with AI and convince it to write helpful code and programs that I'd love to use. And share with you.Thanks for stopping by.

SCREENWRITER | CREATIVE DIRECTOR | CLOSE-UP MAGICIAN