The 15 Minute Movie Method

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“Star Trek”

July 28, 2012
The latest Star Trek movie isn’t bad, even if you’re not a Trekkie, you’ll find enough action to keep you interested. Of course, no movie...
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Character vs. Plot Driven Stories

July 21, 2012
What’s more important? Character or plot? It depends on what type of story you’re writing, but generally, plot should be subservient to character. Rod Serling...
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Visual vs. Voice

July 16, 2012
What’s the best way to keep an audience’s attention? The two most common ways involve interesting visuals or interesting dialogue. Neither one is better than...
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Truth vs. Fiction Truth vs. Fiction

July 11, 2012
How do you tell a true story? It’s easy, you don’t tell the literal truth. Instead, you dramatize the facts. There’s an old saying that...
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The Big Picture

July 6, 2012
Every great movie focuses on a single theme. Every bad movie creates so many loose ends that nothing seems organized, coherent, or relevant. So the...
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Identifying Your Villain

July 1, 2012
Every story has a hero and a villain. The hero is the person we want to win. The villain is the person or force that’s...
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The Real Goal of a Story

June 29, 2012
Most screenwriters focus myopically on the hero’s goal. That’s fine, but what makes a story great isn’t whether the hero achieves his goal or not,...
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Identifying the Real Villain

June 24, 2012
The real villain isn’t just a single person or evil organization, but something that goes much deeper. The real villain is the hero himself. In...
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The Past and Future of Screenwriting

June 18, 2012
You can learn from the past on how to write screenplays by studying what has worked before, and what has always worked has been a...
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Plot Twists

June 11, 2012
No story should be predictable because then the audience loses interest. To make your plot unpredictable, you need plot twists. One of the most famous...
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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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