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 · Stories & short dramas
• 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

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