如何使用 Claude 擔任劇本作家：節拍、對白、格式

Because the default is people who speak in complete grammatical sentences, answer the question they were asked, and name their own feelings out loud. Real speech interrupts, deflects and talks around the subject. The fix is not asking for 'natural dialogue' but banning the habits by name in the prompt: no feeling-naming, no 'Look,' or 'Listen,' openers, no 'It's not about X, it's about Y', no speeches over three sentences, no neat closing button. Then require an interruption, three lines under five words, and an ending mid-thought.

Fountain. Screenplay formatting is indentation and indentation does not survive a chat window. Fountain is a free plain-text markup for screenplays (fountain.io) created by John August, Nima Yousefi and Stu Maschwitz: character names in caps on their own line, action in plain lines, parentheticals in brackets. It reads like a screenplay as raw text and every major screenwriting app imports it. Paste the output into a .fountain file.

No. Fountain is free and imports into every major screenwriting app, so you can write a complete script in a text editor. If you later want industry-standard software, Final Draft 13 Personal lists at $249.99 and is frequently discounted to $199.99 on finaldraft.com (checked August 2026), and Fade In sells a perpetual licence rather than a subscription. Neither is needed to get a draft written.

It cannot tell whether a joke is funny, because comedy depends on timing and delivery that do not exist on the page. It has no taste and will praise your work if you ask whether it is good, so ask what is loose instead. It drifts on continuity past page ten, so re-paste a short facts list each session. It cannot supply the premise. And it invents production detail, so never let it near a budget, a location cost or a music clearance question.

The skill is a ZIP file containing a SKILL.md at its root. In the Claude desktop app, open Customize then Skills, add a skill, upload the ZIP, and toggle it on. Skills need code execution enabled, under Settings then Capabilities. Anthropic's help centre currently lists Skills on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise, while its Academy tutorial lists Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise, so if you are on the free plan check Settings then Capabilities for your own account rather than trusting either page. Where the Skills menu is not available, or in ChatGPT or Gemini, open the SKILL.md in a text editor and paste its contents into custom instructions instead.

Do not give Claude a minute count, because it cannot hear you speak. Read a page of your own writing aloud with a stopwatch, divide words by minutes to get your personal rate, then hand Claude a word budget instead. For screenplays the working convention is roughly one properly formatted page per minute of screen time, but the read-aloud stopwatch beats any rule of thumb for narration and talking-head video.