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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 notes and 焦菊隐/童道明 criticism.

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).

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 essays on the writers' room.

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-cute), Hitchcock and his writers, Adaptation, Mildred Pierc…

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.

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.

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.

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/design, character-specific vocabulary and grammar, seven sc…

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 shot, card method, adaptation as original work), Robert McK…

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 tricks), Miki Satoshi (small-material notebook, theme emerges la…

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, reading to hostile listeners, surviving producers), Choi Seok…

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); Fellowes's annotated Downton Abbey season two (19 storylines, 41…

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).

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, running gags, ten comedic nuances, format rules), Neil Landau's…