For writers and the producers who need them
The writing floor for vertical drama
Sixty to a hundred episodes, one to three minutes each, every one ending on a reason to keep watching. Screenburn runs the whole development line, series arc to episode beats to production-ready scripts, with a Retention Engine reading your pacing as you go. Writers write free.
$11B
What microdrama earned worldwide in 2025 (Omdia)
60 to 100
Episodes in a season
1 to 3 min
The length of an episode
$0
What writers pay
The problems the form creates
Feature and TV instincts misfire in this form.
Screenburn teaches the grammar while you build: the episode hook, the escalation, the cliff at the end, and an arc that holds across a sixty-plus episode run.
No professional tool existed for microdrama development.
This one does. Episode structure guidance, batch management, cliffhanger tracking, and exports that walk straight into production, all in the platform.
A hundred episodes means a hundred scripts.
Answer the development questions once; Screenburn frames scenes for the full run, watches season momentum, and calls out drift while it is still one episode wide.
Producers cannot check scripts against the format’s constraints.
The microdrama templates carry the production grammar: few locations, small casts, fast turnover. What reaches your desk already fits how vertical gets shot.
Concept to shooting script
01
Load the format
Pick Microdrama Series and a development depth. Structure guidance arrives tuned to one-to-three-minute episodes: hook mechanics, cliff placement, pacing marks.
02
Cast for instant recognition
Vertical characters have seconds to land. The character questionnaire pushes for visual identity, fast emotional hooks, and the relationship engines that drive a binge.
03
Answer for serial shape
Series arc, episode beats, cliffhanger architecture, retention triggers. Your answers become a scene structure cut for vertical pacing.
04
Write the run, ship the run
Episodes write in SceneBurner with format-true layout. Reorder as the season firms up, then export to Final Draft, Fountain, or PDF, ready for the floor.
Built into the platform
Reads like a viewer
The Retention Engine checks every episode for the stop-the-scroll moment and the earn-the-next-play ending, with season momentum on one screen. It runs while you write, free.
Structure inside the episode
Hook, escalation, cliff. Every episode gets its own architecture, so a hundred episodes become a hundred reasons to keep watching and the season still adds up.
The arc across the run
A vertical serial has its own dramatic logic. Plan act breaks across the full run, track character arcs, and keep episode 90 as tight as episode 9.
Suggestions that know the form
Format-aware ideas on every story question, free, and every one logged, so you always know what the machine offered and what you chose.
Exports that walk onto set
Nine formats out, Final Draft XML, Fountain, and PDF among them. Scene headings, transitions, and episode breaks come handled.
Change your mind mid-run
A microdrama that turns out to be a feature can become one. Switch formats and the structure recalculates around the character and story work you keep.
The market, in the margin
CherryBowl Intelligence, our index of more than 35,000 series across 19 platforms, shows what trends, which genres pull, and where the audience moves next, inside the workflow.
Free
Individual writers
Everything microdrama: format tools, guided structure, suggestions, every export format, unlimited stories. No card.
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Production companies and studios
Ten seats, the Writers Room, novel import, consent-gated voice analysis, and watermarked exports that trace a leak to its copy. Pricing on contact.
Contact salesThe next play is the whole game
Learn the structure at Microdrama Structure, or open the tool and build a season.