The 15 Minute Movie Method

December 2020

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What’s So Special About Your Screenplay?

December 30, 2020
When you write a screenplay, it’s easy to think it’s the most compelling story int he world. However to an outsider, such as a Hollywood...
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Your First Screenplay Will Probably Not Be Your Best Screenplay

December 27, 2020
Novices have a common delusion. They believe their first screenplay will be great and all they need to do is keep rewriting it. While any...
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Creating a Compelling Story Using the Word “But”

December 24, 2020
The biggest mistake novices can make is writing a screenplay before they know the story they want to tell. Screenplays written this way tend to...
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The Story is Not What it Seems in the Beginning

December 20, 2020
One way notices often write themselves into a corner is to come up with an interesting story and then run out of ideas about halfway...
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Simplifying Your Story in Four Parts

December 17, 2020
When someone gets an idea for a story, they often overcomplicate things. Instead of telling a single story, they rush into telling multiple stories that...
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The Hero’s Inner Conflict Appears Everywhere

December 14, 2020
The three ways to create conflict are to fight against the environment, to fight against another person, and to fight against yourself. Fighting against the...
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Telling a Story Like a Comic Book

December 11, 2020
In sports, there’s something known as cross training where people practice other types of exercises to help them get better at the sport they want...
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Defining the Four Major Plot Points

December 8, 2020
Plotting a story isn’t easy so one way to start is to define your beginning and ending. The beginning should be the opposite of the...
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Upping the Stakes in a Story

December 5, 2020
There’s an interesting book by Matthew Dicks called “Storyworthy,” which explains how tot ell a compelling story. Although the book is based on the author’s...
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What’s the Heart of Your Story?

December 2, 2020
There are two parts to every story. First, there’s the external action such as car crashes, gunfire, and explosions. Second, there’s internal action that involves...
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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.

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