# Emma Short-Drama Writing Skills — guide skill for stories & short dramas

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Short-drama writing kit (hooks, outlines, dialogue, trims, US localization) that beat a no-skill control in blind tests.

- **Type:** [Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/guides.md) · [Stories & short dramas](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/story.md)
- **Slug:** `emma-screenwriting`
- **Status:** beta
- **Publisher:** Emma Wang (community)
- **License:** MIT
- **Source:** https://github.com/adoria111/emma-screenwriting-skills
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex
- **Cost:** Free — instructions only
- **Adoption:** 52 installs, 3 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

A beta set of 24 short-drama writing skills: structure breakdown, adaptation, topic iteration, expectation design, episode-end hooks, outline-to-script expansion, Chinese dialogue diagnosis, script trimming, and an overseas track that localizes dialogue into natural North American English for ReelShort and DramaBox-style vertical dramas. In the Awesome Short Drama Skills blind test (2026-10-18) its scripts and character outlines beat the no-skill control in all three runs; judges noted restrained dialogue and supporting characters with motives and arcs, with hooks and paywall beats on the soft side. Young repo (first commit 2026-10-06) with very few stars, so it stays in beta.

## Use when

- Design episode-end hooks and paywall beats
- Expand an outline into a scene-by-scene script
- Localize Chinese short-drama dialogue for US platforms

## Not for

- Storyboards, image or video prompts

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add adoria111/emma-screenwriting-skills`
- Codex: `npx skills add adoria111/emma-screenwriting-skills`

## More stories & short dramas skills

- [fal Storytelling](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-storytelling.md): Plan multi-shot stories: storyboards, shot lists, first-to-last-frame chains and continuity across scenes.
- [Shuohao Short-Drama Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/shuohao-short-drama.md): Seven chained skills from novel to AI short drama: characters, outline, art bible, script, staging, storyboard.
- [Drama Skills (ZenStory)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/zenstory-drama-skills.md): Short-drama skills that beat a no-skill control in blind tests: script, assets, storyboard, keyframe and video prompts.
- [Screenwriting Skills](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/screenwriting-skills.md): 26 screenwriting and dramaturgy skills, from story structure to writing in the style of Ozu, Chekhov or Succession.
- [AI Short Drama Studio](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/ai-short-drama-studio.md): Greenlight score, series bible, episode compiler and production pack for serialized AI short dramas and manju.
- [Short Drama Skill Finder](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/short-drama-skill-finder.md): Picks short-drama and manju skills from a hand-checked list of 90+ projects by stage, video model and agent.