Twist-Ending Shortform Script Planner
Original 60-second twist-story script, timed beats, image p ## How it works
Example input
[HAND-WRITTEN FICTIONAL SAMPLE - invented for testing.] Seed (fictional anecdote, invented): On a small island ferry, the ticket clerk at the kiosk sells only one-way tickets. Every Friday the same quiet man buys one to the mainland and carries a boxed cake. She has never seen him come back and has decided he must be running away from something. She has not been to the mainland in years and is not on speaking terms with her mother. Target length: about 60 seconds. Language: English. Speaking rate: 150 words per minute. Tone: quiet, bittersweet, warm in the end. Vertical 9:16 for Shorts. Constraint: no real places or brands; keep it gentle.
Example output
> **Planning aid, not legal advice.** This is a creative script plan. It is not legal advice, not a > platform policy ruling, and not a guarantee of reach, monetization or approval on any platform. > You are responsible for reviewing the script before publishing and for following the rules of the > platform and of any image or voice tool you use. Policies change. Platform norms note: not re-verified (no web fetch performed). Statements below are general cautions, not quotations of any policy. ## Inputs as understood - **Seed (my words):** A ferry-kiosk clerk who sells only outbound tickets assumes a regular Friday passenger carrying a cake must be running away, while she herself avoids the mainland and her mother. - **Language:** English for narration and captions (stated). Image prompts in English. - **Target length:** about 60 seconds (stated). - **Speaking rate:** 150 words per minute (stated), i.e. 2.5 words per second including pauses; used for every word budget and the duration estimate, with no extra pause allowance. - **Tone and audience:** quiet, bittersweet, warm in the end (stated); general audience. - **Format:** vertical 9:16 for Shorts (stated). - **Constraints:** no real places or brands; keep it gentle (stated). ## Originality pre-check Originality pre-check: PASS The seed is a hand-written fictional sample, not a recognizable existing work, a real private person's story or a real event. No real names, places or brands appear. The twist is built fresh around the seed's own premise. ## Variation knobs used | Knob | Value chosen | |---|---| | Twist type | wrong assumption about who is leaving (the viewer and the narrator both assume flight; it is a visit) | | Narrator stance | a recorded message (a voicemail the clerk leaves for her mother) | | Reveal placement | at about 80%, followed by a one-line sting | | Tense and register | present-leaning, plain, with short past-tense recollection | | Setting class | a shop or service counter (a ferry ticket kiosk) | | Emotional endpoint | quietly warm | | Opening move | a rule or sign (one-way tickets only) | | Clue style | spoken line plus a background object (a candle stub) | | Pacing shape | steady build, then two short beats at the end | | Closing line type | callback to the opening (the voicemail to Mum returns) | Why this combination: the seed is about a clerk who judges a stranger from behind a counter, so a voicemail frame lets her own estrangement leak into how she reads him, and the final line turns her judgement into her own action. ## Logline …
Real output from running the skill on a sample problem, shortened. The skill file itself is not published here.