The 15 Minute Movie Method

March 2024

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Every Story is About Resolving a Problem From the Past

March 30, 2024
It’s easy to come up with an idea for a story. However, it’s hard to turn that idea into a complete story. Most often, writers...
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Make Every Goal As Difficult as Possible

March 26, 2024
If you analyze major scenes, you’ll notice they actually have pretty simple goals. In the scene below from “Back to the Future,” the goal in...
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Using the Two Spines of a Story to Create a Strong Screenplay

March 22, 2024
Watch a bad movie and you’ll see scenes that seem to exist for no other reason than to show action, sex, or special effects. The...
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How to Write a Boring Script

March 18, 2024
When you’re learning anything for the first time, you won’t be very good at it. In fact, you’ll probably make common mistakes that nearly all...
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Learn How to Tell a Story by Writing (and Studying) Short Scripts

March 14, 2024
If you can’t write a compelling scene, you won’t be able to write a compelling screenplay. Far too many novices write screenplays filled with large...
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How to Write a Great Script in Final Draft 13

March 10, 2024
One mistake novices make is that they think if they buy a screenwriting program like Final Draft, they can become a screenwriter. That’s only partially...
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How to Improve Your Screenwriting Skills

March 6, 2024
Learning anything new is more about time management than intelligence. The harder you work at something, the better you’ll get so one way to get...
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Know What Screenwriting Judges Look For

March 2, 2024
This is the way most screenwriters work. They write a screenplay and send it off to a screenplay contest, hoping they’ll win. That’s like learning...
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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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