Video Script Writing

Retention-first script writing for any video purpose. The script is the product; production quality is secondary. A rough, real, well-structured script beats a polished script with weak architecture.

Distilled 2026-08-26 from the Learn Anything founder-video session plus a research pass over hook studies, curiosity psychology, narrative transportation, speech-rate experiments, and eye-tracking editing research. Full citations: references/research-digest.md.

Pair with

• A voice skill for the speaker's prose voice (e.g. write-like-eric) when writing as a specific person; the script must survive a table read.
• marketing-copy for offer construction and persuasion strategy upstream.
• eric-video (or the production pipeline du jour) when the script moves to rendering; this skill ends at the script plus its production spec.