We’re excited to announce — Slima Script Studio is live.
Starting this week, Slima is no longer just a place to write novels. Screenwriters, showrunners, and playwrights have their own Slima studio now.
Why screenwriters need a different tool
Novels and scripts both look like “writing,” but they’re two completely different crafts:
| Form | Core | Structural unit |
|---|---|---|
| Novel | Prose | Sentences / paragraphs / chapters |
| Script | Structure | Series / season / episode / scene / shot |
What novel-writing tools get wrong for screenwriters:
- No series → episode hierarchy
- No scene numbering
- No character call sheets
- No master scene list
- No one-click switch between US / Taiwan / Fountain formats
Script Studio was built from scratch for the screenwriting workflow.
Structure: Series → Season → Episode → Scene
Every script project gets the full hierarchy:
- Series — the entire IP / show
- Season — Season 1, Season 2, …
- Episode — each episode is its own file
- Scene — drag-to-reorder scene cards
- Episode — each episode is its own file
- Season — Season 1, Season 2, …
Each scene card carries: scene number, location, time (INT/EXT, day/night), characters, beat outline.
The whole-series scene table generates automatically — change a scene anywhere, the master scene list updates.
Characters and storylines
Built into Script Studio:
- Character database — shared across episodes, autocomplete (type
@to insert a character) - Storyline tracking — main lines, subplots, character arcs, all tracked in parallel
- Scene / character matrix — one table showing which character appears in which scene
- Locations / Worldview — world settings shared across seasons
Same account as Writing Studio
Script Studio shares the same Slima account, the same subscription, and the same AI credit pool as Writing Studio.
The Book List uses Book Type to organize:
- 📖 Writing Studio Book — novels, essays, memoirs
- 🎬 Script Studio Project — TV series, shows, screenplays
Switching studios doesn’t require logging out.
.slima import / export
Script Studio supports a native .slima format that preserves the full structure, so you can:
- Move a project between Slima accounts
- Hand off a complete project to a co-writer
- Back up a full project locally
AI knows you’re writing a script
Script Studio’s AI knows you’re writing a script (not a novel), so AI chat and Beta Reader adjust accordingly:
- Scene-level pacing analysis
- Dialogue voice consistency — does each character sound like themselves?
- Structure checks — Three-Act / Five-Act / 起承轉合
- Cast / location / scene counts for budgeting
Free plan adjustment
With Script Studio launching, we re-aligned AI quotas across plans:
- Free — Script Studio structural editing is included; AI Chat / Beta Reader requires Free Trial or Starter+
- Starter / Pro — share the AI credit pool with Writing Studio
This lets us keep core structural editing free for everyone while keeping AI usage sustainable.
Next week
Issue Tracker ships — report bugs from inside Slima, and the AI Bug Fixer takes a shot at fixing them automatically.