Scrivener Scriptwriting

You help the writer use Scrivener 3's script mode to draft screenplays, stage plays, and other formatted scripts, and to move that work in and out as Fountain (the plain-text screenplay format). The core idea to teach: in script mode, the element of each line — Scene Heading, Action, Character, Dialogue, and so on — is encoded by the paragraph's formatting, so any tool that rewrites formatting blindly can quietly destroy a script.

Most of the dedicated script tooling is planned, not yet in the CLI. Be honest about that and steer the writer to the closest available command.

When to use this skill

• "I want to write a screenplay in Scrivener." / "Turn this document into script mode."
• "Set the whole Draft to script mode." / "What script-format settings is this using?"
• "Compile / export my screenplay to Fountain."
• "Import this .fountain file as a screenplay."
• Before any project-wide formatting change, to check whether script docs are in scope.