Screenwriting Skills plugin for Grok Build

Skills (25)

• chekhov-dramaturgy — Writing plays and screenplays in the Chekhovian mode (契诃夫戏剧法) — distilled from the complete plays (没有父亲的人/普拉东诺夫, 伊凡诺夫, 林妖→万尼亚舅舅, 海鸥, 三姊妹, 樱桃园, nine one-acts) plus Chekhov's own letters, Stanislavsky's and Nemirovich-Danchenko's rehearsal no
• ozu-screenplay-style — Writing screenplays in the style of Ozu Yasujiro and Noda Kogo (小津安二郎・野田高梧) — distilled from six complete screenplays (晚春 Late Spring, 麦秋 Early Summer, 东京物语 Tokyo Story, 浮草 Floating Weeds, 秋日和 Late Autumn, 秋刀鱼之味 An Autumn Afternoon). Covers
• succession-series-writing — Writing a Succession-style ensemble series (继承之战群像剧写法) — distilled from Jesse Armstrong's complete shooting scripts for all four seasons, 39 episodes (Faber 2023), with his introductions and footnotes, plus Frank Rich's and Lucy Prebble's e
• sw-american-case-studies — Case studies of American screenwriting (美国电影剧作案例) — Mei Feng's readings of the Hollywood Western (value pairs, four oppositions), screwball comedy (strong heroine, buddy vs adversary two-hander), Billy Wilder (disguise, Lubitsch touch, meet
• sw-character-conflict — Character creation, protagonist/antagonist design and dramatic conflict for scripts (人物/对手/冲突) — merged from Lajos Egri (three-dimensional character, orchestration, unity of opposites, pivotal character, rising vs static vs jumping conflict
• sw-chinese-opera-banqiang — Playwriting for banqiang-system Chinese opera (板腔体：京剧、豫剧、越剧、秦腔、评剧、沪剧、淮剧、川剧弹戏), where sung passages are paired seven- or ten-character lines varied by metre (板式) rather than filled into fixed tune patterns. Covers genre (唱工戏／做工戏／武戏), the mai
• sw-chinese-opera-banqiang-cases — Worked full-length scripts of banqiang-system Chinese opera with their creation records (板腔体全本语料库). Primary texts; 翁偶虹《锁麟囊》 (the revised score edition, 65 arias, 15 self-account-vs-score checks), 汪曾祺等《沙家浜》 (the 1965 text, not the 1970 one;
• sw-chinese-opera-qupai — Chinese opera playwriting for the qupai (曲牌体) system — 元杂剧, 明清传奇, 昆曲, 川剧高腔, where sung text is filled into fixed tune patterns (填词) rather than built from paired lines varied by metre. Covers stage vs study (李渔 vs 吴梅/王季烈), the 清曲/剧曲 switch,
• sw-chinese-opera-qupai-cases — Worked qupai-system (曲牌体) opera scripts, act by act. Guan Hanqing's three surviving zaju (窦娥冤／救风尘／金线池 — twelve acts, 126 tunes, one mode and one rhyme per act, sung/spoken ratios); Tang Xianzu's 牡丹亭 (55 scenes, ~420 tunes, 集唐 closing quatra
• sw-chinese-series-practice — Mainland-Chinese TV-series craft, documents and production chain (国产剧创作体系与制片链) — the China layer parallel to the Japanese and Korean/French skills. Distilled from Yao Kougen 姚扣根《电视剧写作概论》(2016; series taxonomy, four Chinese script formats, t
• sw-dialogue — Dialogue writing and revision for screen and stage (对白/台词/潜台词) — merged from Robert McKee's Dialogue (dialogue as action, said/unsaid/unsayable, exposition as ammunition, beat = action/reaction gerunds, flaws of credibility/language/content
• sw-format-adaptation — Screenplay format, page craft, the writing process and adaptation (剧本格式/写作流程/改编) — merged from Wendy Henson (spec format rules), Richard Walter (page craft, revision), Neill Hicks (selling vs shooting script, draft chain), Syd Field (master
• sw-genre-anatomy — Genre anatomy from John Truby's The Anatomy of Genres (类型解剖 / 类型节拍 / 混合类型 / 超越类型) — genres as beat systems with a life philosophy underneath; three rules (hit every beat of your genre, mix three or four genres, transcend the primary genre),
• sw-industry-business — The screenwriting business and career (编剧行业与生意经) — merged from Diamond & Weissman's Bulletproof (buyer's-eye workflow, three Cs, one-page nine-step, set pieces, submission, notes, resilience), Eric Bork's The Idea (PROBLEM seven-element ide
• sw-japanese-screenwriting — Japanese (and other non-Hollywood) screenwriting methods (日本编剧方法/原创剧本实战) — distilled from ten Japanese directors and writers in ゼロからの脚本術; Kosawa Ryota (three acts as 起承转合, speed by jumping), Uchida Kenji (beautiful structure, time-axis tric
• sw-korean-french-screenwriting — Korean and French screenwriting practice (韩国/法国编剧方法) — from the international masterclass; Oh Seung-uk (Christmas in August, The Shameless; field research in disguise, "write the emotion", first act and last act first, spaces as skeleton, r
• sw-premise-theme — Premise, theme, controlling idea, subject selection and logline for scripts (前提/主题/立意/选材/戏核) — merged from Lajos Egri's premise-as-tyrant and dialectic, Robert McKee's controlling idea (value + cause) and idea/counter-idea, Neill Hicks' fiv
• sw-scene-craft — Scene and sequence craft (场景/段落/细节/道具/悬念/情趣) — merged from Robert McKee's scene design and five-step scene analysis (value turn, beats, text/subtext, turning points, pacing, image systems), McKee's Dialogue scene types (balanced, comic, asy
• sw-series-case-studies — Case studies of television series writing (剧集案例库) from primary texts; Sorkin's six West Wing teleplays (act-page tables, eight act-out types); Chase's five Sopranos scripts (the 35-beat A/B/C/D recipe, what a pilot refuses to explain); Fell
• sw-series-engine-bible — From an idea to a sellable series design; series engine / franchise, story pattern, character webs that keep generating conflict, pilot types, and the documents that sell them (剧集引擎/franchise/故事模式/人物网/试播集类型/剧集圣经/跳板/提案). Merged from Rabkin's
• sw-series-structure — Episode and season structure for TV series (剧集单集与季的结构) — teasers and cold opens, broadcast four/five/six-act grids with page anchors, three tests for finding the invisible acts in streaming scripts, act-out and cliffhanger taxonomies, Oberg
• sw-sitcom-comedy — Half-hour television comedy craft (半小时情景喜剧/笑点力学/困境机器/多机位单机位格式) — merged from Evan S. Smith's Writing Television Sitcoms (premise-driven comedy in three levels, nine predicaments, six character mixes, setup/punchline mechanics, toppers, runn
• sw-story-structure — Story structure for screenplays and stage plays (故事结构) — merged from Syd Field's paradigm and plot points, Blake Snyder's Save the Cat beat sheet and board, Robert McKee's Story (event/scene/sequence/act, inciting incident, progressive comp
• sw-truby-anatomy — Organic story anatomy from John Truby's The Anatomy of Story (有机结构/设计原则/22步骤/道德议题/四角对立/幽灵/场景编排) — the designing principle (story process plus original execution), the seven key steps as the organic spine, all twenty-two steps with the middl
• sw-workflow — Project orchestrator for the screenwriting skill set (剧本项目主线调度 / 状态存档 / story bible) — a meta-skill that adds no new craft knowledge but routes a screenplay or stage-play project through stages (premise → structure → character → scenes → dr