The 15 Minute Movie Method

September 2024

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Save Time by Borrowing Plots From Other Movies

September 27, 2024
One huge problem every writer faces is coming up with a coherent plot that drives the entire story. Without a logical and compelling story, all...
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Study Musicals to See How Songs Reveal a Character’s Goal

September 23, 2024
Before anyone can care about your story, they have to care about your characters, especially your hero. Yet a surprising number of writers never clarify...
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Every Story is About Overcoming the Hero’s Haunted Past

September 19, 2024
Every story is about making the hero change and the best way to make your hero change is through a problem form the past. This...
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Maximize Success By Thinking of Your Budget

September 15, 2024
Writers love to let their imaginations soar with grandiose ideas with starships exploring dozens of exotic planets, flying dragons circling medieval castles, or armies of...
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Creating Multiple Villains vs. One Villain

September 11, 2024
In many movies, there’s a single main villain with an army of henchmen who constantly attack and threaten the hero. Think of any James Bond...
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Make a Stronger Story by Defining the Start and End of Act II

September 7, 2024
In Act I, the story begins. In Act III, the hero fights the villain in the final battle where only one can emerge triumphant. However,...
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Defining What Your Story is Really About

September 3, 2024
When most people come up with an idea for a story, they usually focus on the characters, the plot, or the action that occurs in...
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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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