You know the tools. This is about the show.

Celia Xavier's writing course is becoming a recorded course you take at your own pace, with an ongoing live workshop alongside it. It covers a 30-episode outline and your first two episodes, and it is entirely about the writing.

Dates and price to be announced. Join the list and we'll email you when it opens. Co-developed with CLOWD Film Festival.

Dates and price to be announced. We'll email you when the recorded course opens.

Taught by Celia Xavier

Vertical screenwriter and producer · Los Angeles

Celia writes high-concept genre verticals — revenge, romantasy, paranormal, suspense — built around women who are dangerous and emotionally guarded. Lean dialogue, a hook and a cliffhanger in every episode.

Her series In Love With My Daughter's Fake Baby Daddy won a Top 6 Visionary Award on ReelShort, took 200,000+ views and a two-year distribution contract. She is a Roy W. Dean Grant finalist, a Writers Bootcamp fellow, and reached the second round of the MACRO × The Black List × Warner Bros. feature incubator, which accepts under one percent.

Twenty years producing independent film came first — twelve produced projects, head of distribution at Tribal TV, and founder of the Tribal Film Festival — before she moved into vertical drama. She is one of the first ten AI creators on Leyline, and built her own pre-write agent for vertical microdrama: hook generation, cliffhanger mapping, and a three-pass human-AI filter loop. This course is that methodology.

Live workshop · schedule to be announced

An ongoing live workshop with Celia

The recorded course carries the method: the three jobs an episode does, the four beats, the rage-bait and recovery rhythm, and the 30-episode outline that holds a series together.

The live workshop runs alongside it on an ongoing basis. The schedule is not set yet. Leave your email and we'll send it when it is.

What the course covers

Celia's course, “Writing Micro Dramas for AI Production”. She taught it live as three sessions in October; the recorded course is built from them.

Part 1

Concepts and refining your logline

·The three jobs an episode does: the hook that earns the install, the free run that builds the habit, the episode 10 cliffhanger that gets them to pay
·The A-plot rule — one plot, and if your premise needs two sentences you have two
·The four beats: Hook, Build, Break, Cliffhanger
·Rage Bait and Emotional recovery, and the rhythm between them
·What AI production makes cheap on the page, and what it still cannot carry

Homework: A full 30-episode outline. You should know the ending before you write episode 1.

Part 2

Draft episode one

·Draft episode one in class against the beat sheet
·Peer read: does the hook land in three seconds, does the cliffhanger make you scroll
·Rewrite in the room until both do
·Why episode two is harder than episode one — you cannot re-hook the same way

Homework: Write episode two.

Part 3

Table read and AI production

·Table read of both episodes
·Rewrite episode two in class
·Read episodes one and two back to back
·AI production tools, applied to finished pages rather than blank ones

Start with a story idea and a draft logline. That is the only prerequisite.

What you leave with

A 30-episode outline

The whole series, ending first

Episodes one and two

Written, read aloud, rewritten

A show bible

Characters, world, tone

Option to continue

Carry on to the full script

What can happen next

For projects that warrant it, production financing to complete a series is available. It is offered selectively and case by case, assessed on the state of the script, how ready you are to produce, and whether the series stands up commercially. Reaching the final of a competition does not entitle anyone to it.

In practice, the people who get there arrive with a finished script — roughly 50 to 60 pages — and intend to direct the show themselves. That is what readiness looks like, and it is why the option to carry on past two episodes exists.

You keep ownership of your show throughout. None of this carries exclusivity, and none of it is a condition of taking the course.

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Dates and price for the recorded course and the live workshop are to be announced. We'll email you when they are set.

Dates and price to be announced. We'll email you when the recorded course opens.