July 2009

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The Mentor

July 30, 2009

The mentor is the character who helps your hero learn how to defeat the villain. Typically the mentor has a painful history that he or...

The Goals of the Villain, Hero, and Mentor

July 24, 2009

The three most important characters are your villain, hero, and mentor. All three of these characters need to have goals of their own and the...

The Non-Changing Hero

July 18, 2009

In a typical story, the hero starts off with a character flaw, learns to overcome it, and then lives happily ever after. However in rare...

The Wisdom of Roald Dahl

July 12, 2009

One of the best ways to study story structure is to read children’s stories. Not only are they entertaining in themselves, but they let you...

More is Less

July 5, 2009

In many bad movies, there’s a tendency to throw everything at the viewer and hope that by some miracle something will work. It won’t and...

About Wallace Wang

First place winner in Scriptapalooza’s 2023 screenwriting competition for the supernatural horror screenplay titled “Nightmares From a Past Life”. Author of “The 15 Minute Movie Method”, “Story Starter”, and “Writing Scenes for Screenplays” in addition to over 50 computer books. Writer of “Three of a Kind”, a situation comedy produced by San Diego State University’s film class that won a student Emmy award. Designer of the board game “Orbit War”, published by Steve Jackson Games, that simulates satellite warfare in the near future.

The 15 Minute Movie Method