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Creating a Story World

January 9, 2014
Most people start out small by thinking of an interesting story, but try to think bigger and create a story world instead. A story is...
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The 15 Minute Movie Method

January 4, 2014
What makes a great screenplay? It’s not just interesting characters, memorable dialogue, or explosive action scenes. What makes a great screenplay is a great story,...
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The Purpose of a Scene

January 1, 2014
Think of every scene like a domino. One scene ends and directly affects the next scene, which concludes and leads into the next scene, and...
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The Universal Truth

December 28, 2013
Some screenwriting books advise you to create your story and then worry about theme after your story has been written. That might work, except you...
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What the Story is About

December 26, 2013
If you ever saw the trailer for a movie called “Bridge to Terabithia,” the trailer made it seem like the story was about two kids...
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10 Worst Movies of 2013

December 20, 2013
Yahoo! has a list of their ten worst movies of 2013 and four of them are sequels. The biggest problem with sequels is that they...
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10 Worst Movie Endings

December 16, 2013
Yahoo! has a short video that lists one critic’s top ten worst movie endings of all time. Even if you haven’t seen all of these...
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Relying on Outside Knowledge to Tell a Story

December 14, 2013
One of the biggest traps of sequels is that they rely on knowledge of the previous movie. If you look at “Aliens” and “Terminator 2,”...
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The Mentor’s Goal

December 12, 2013
Your hero can’t change all by himself. To change, your hero always needs the help of a Mentor. However, the Mentor character doesn’t just pop...
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The Failure of “Elysium”

December 7, 2013
In the summer of 2013, Hollywood released “Elysium,” which was a big budget science fiction movie from the director of “District 9.” Unlike “District 9,”...
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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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