Yang tells of taking a scriptwriting course at college, but he felt that the course's emphasis on "structure," "characters," "events," "conflict," and "climax" was too far divorced from reality. Later he joined the school's experimental theater troupe where, inspired by troupe director Ding Hongzhe, he began writing.
楊雅喆說，大學曾修過劇本寫作課，但課堂上所說的「結構、人物、事件、衝突、高潮」等名詞，與現實距離太遠；而後參加學校的實驗劇團，受到劇團指導老師丁洪哲的啟發，開始學習寫劇本。