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How to rewrite on-the-nose dialogue in a scene with Screenwriting Skills

Revise a scene whose characters say exactly what they feel, using the dialogue and scene craft skills together.

  • Content
  • Intermediate
  • 15 minutes
  • From the README
  • Claude Code
  • Codex

Who it is forA screenwriter whose draft scene feels flat because characters state their emotions outright and the action has little pressure.

The problemDialogue that carries the plot directly weakens the scene, and general notes rarely show which lines to cut or convert into action.

The outcomeA revised scene with subtext-driven dialogue and tighter scene structure, plus notes on which lines changed and why.

What you need first

  • Claude Code or OpenAI Codex installed
  • Git available if you use the clone-and-copy install route
  • Your series outline, script pages or story notes as text

Steps

  1. Run /plugin marketplace add jtydhr88/screenwriting-skills in Claude Code.
  2. Run /plugin install screenwriting@screenwriting-skills in Claude Code.
  3. Paste the scene text and say which character's intent should stay hidden.
  4. Ask the agent to mark each on-the-nose line and propose a revision, then compare the new scene against your original.

Prompt for your agent

Using the screenwriting-skills repo (sw-dialogue and sw-scene-craft), revise the scene in <pasted scene text> so that the characters stop stating their feelings directly and the conflict shows in action. Return the revised scene and a list of changed lines with reasons. Verify that the character names and the scene's facts are unchanged.

Caveat. The skills are applied to your script in its own language, so keep the scene text in your script's language and expect the explanations in the language you asked in.

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