November 2009

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Subplots

November 29, 2009

What most people do is they get a good idea and start writing. Then their story runs out of team around page 60 and they...

Personifying the Villain

November 23, 2009

Most plots can be summed up as simply as Man vs. Man, but some plots are more like Man vs. Nature. So how do you...

More Than One Reason to Take Action

November 18, 2009

Here’s a one-dimensional story. A villain is doing something bad for the sake of being evil, and the hero defeats the villain just because the...

Truth is Not Fiction

November 13, 2009

Take a true story and it’s rarely interesting when told factually. Most true stories have long periods of time when nothing exciting happens and that...

Linking Your Hero to Your Villain

November 7, 2009

Your villain has a goal that has nothing to do with your hero. Your hero also has a goal that has nothing to do with...

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