Short drama episodes skills: Structure · episode outlines · hooks
23 skills help with Structure · episode outlines · hooks: 9 focused (covering at most 3 stages) and 14 broad (full pipelines or several steps). Most starred: shuohao-skills, screenwriting-skills and shanyin-screenwriting-master. Data updated 2026-10-16.
Focused (9)
Shanyin Super Screenwriting Master: characters, outline, scene breakdown and full script in four formats: concept micro-film, narrative short, feature and multi-episode series
Short drama / manju screenwriting: Save the Cat methodology plus analysis of 31 hit short dramas
Five-minute short-drama scripts: one question per step locks genre niche, theme, structural archetype and the first-30-second opening, then four-act beat outline → full script → storyboard script
Narrative Harness: a local state tool for writing Chinese novels and scripts; the older long-form screenplay templates remain in legacy/
Hit-novel teardown: breaks a hit novel or manju into a verifiable narrative system for adaptation reference
Screenwriting knowledge engine: turns Vogler/McKee/Save the Cat into an Obsidian story wiki with 15-beat pacing, three-layer character cards and structural diagnosis
- gushi-skill★ 5
Short-drama screenwriting method distilled from Robert McKee's Story
Kunka Screenwriting Master: Chinese-first screenwriting skill set covering ideation, revision, continuity checks and series development
Hit short-drama screenwriting for Hongguo/Douyin: the short-drama-factory engine plus the methodology of "Short Drama Writing Lesson 1" issues 01–10
Broad (14)
Short-drama production skill set: character breakdown, adaptation outline, scene and prop art design, script, storyboard
The most systematic screenwriting-theory set here: structure, Truby, scenes, dialogue, series bible, writers' room, with cases from Japan, Korea, France, the US and Chinese opera
Film and TV development and evaluation: novel/IP evaluation, plot-point breakdown, character bios and relationships, outline, adapting novels into short drama or long series
- short-drama-factory★ 387
Industrial short-drama writing for Douyin/Hongguo: a one-line idea or a web novel → a 60–100 episode script with paywall points, plus hook, cliffhanger and twist formulas and machine-check rules
Short-drama production controller: novel outline/characters/script, director's storyboard, prompts, sound assets, rough cut and QC (16:9 by default)
- ai-short-drama★ 71
Compiles premises such as rebirth, underdog comeback and hidden big shot into serials with payoff beats and keep-watching hooks: genre research, story architecture, shot timelines, continuity checks
- ai-short-drama★ 44
Xuefeng payoff drama: expands one line into a full brief, writes episode scripts on a payoff-beat model while syncing character/scene/prop files, then breaks shots into Seedance 2.0 prompts
- jingju-skills★ 37
Jingju: full AI manju workflow covering outline, character consistency, episode scripts, storyboard, image/video prompts and ComfyUI batch image generation
Vibe Video: runs open-source MiniMax H3 on AutoDL to render video; its short-drama template chains brief, episode synopses, script and dialogue, art and video, with H3 prompt-writing guidance
- ManjuForge★ 21
Manju / short-drama serial engine: one line → script, storyboard, voiceover and prompts, with 7 memory files and 22 consistency checks to keep characters from breaking
4 subagents collaborate to turn a story idea into video storyboard and asset prompts, and can call the Dreamina CLI to generate images and submit video tasks
- ai-manga-drama★ 17
AI manju workshop: eight-step flow from one-line idea to final video with task-card scripts, character reference library, style anchors, storyboard, image/video prompts, voiceover, subtitles and final compositing check
Hardcore Director: film and AI video controller that routes by stage to screenwriting/short drama, characters and scenes, storyboard, Seedance 2.5/Wan 3.0/H3 prompts, sound and editing modules
Emma short-drama skill set: structure teardown, adaptation, topic iteration, expectation design, per-episode hooks, episode outline expansion, dialogue diagnosis, script cuts