The 15 Minute Movie Method

July 2023

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Make Your Story Stronger Using Cause and Effect

July 28, 2023
Think of dominoes lined up on a table where you tap one domino and it pushes over the next domino until they all fall down....
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Write Better Dialogue By Imagining Your Story as a Stage Play

July 24, 2023
Most screenwriters have trouble writing dialogue that sounds natural. Either they write dialogue that vomits up information for the audience to know more about the...
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How Does a Scene Change a Character’s Emotions?

July 21, 2023
The most common mistake novices make in writing a screenplay is creating a scene that consists of characters telling the story by reciting details that...
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Write Better Stories by Pretending You Have No Money

July 17, 2023
Look at the recent box office failures like “The Flash,” “Solo,” “Terminator: Genisys,” or “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” All of these movies...
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Outlining a Story Easily with the Four D’s

July 13, 2023
You can divide every story into four parts: Act I, Act IIa, Act IIb, and Act III where each Act is roughly the same length....
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Create Tension in Act II with an Unsolvable Dilemma

July 9, 2023
Many writers say that the middle of a screenplay, Act II, is the hardest part to write. That’s because it’s usually easiest to start an...
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How to Write Subtext in Dialogue to Create Greater Conflict

July 5, 2023
Every story is about conflict. Although most people associate conflict with fist fights, gunfire, and explosions, most conflict occurs through dialogue even if a gun...
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Create Tension with Emotional Dilemmas

July 1, 2023
In every story, the hero should be caught in a dilemma. That dilemma forces the hero to either stay stuck in their dead end life...
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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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