The 15 Minute Movie Method

wallyadmin

Showing 1551 - 1560 of 1636 results

It’s Always About Something Else

December 6, 2009
When James Cameron was filming “Titanic” in Mexico near San Diego, a friend of mine got hired as an extra, playing a dead person floating...
Read More »

Subplots

November 29, 2009
What most people do is they get a good idea and start writing. Then their story runs out of team around page 60 and they...
Read More »

Personifying the Villain

November 23, 2009
Most plots can be summed up as simply as Man vs. Man, but some plots are more like Man vs. Nature. So how do you...
Read More »

More Than One Reason to Take Action

November 18, 2009
Here’s a one-dimensional story. A villain is doing something bad for the sake of being evil, and the hero defeats the villain just because the...
Read More »

Truth is Not Fiction

November 13, 2009
Take a true story and it’s rarely interesting when told factually. Most true stories have long periods of time when nothing exciting happens and that...
Read More »

Linking Your Hero to Your Villain

November 7, 2009
Your villain has a goal that has nothing to do with your hero. Your hero also has a goal that has nothing to do with...
Read More »

Defining a Theme

October 31, 2009
A plot tells what happens. A story tells how it happens. A theme defines the purpose of the story in the first place. At the simplest...
Read More »

The Villain’s Henchmen

October 25, 2009
Even though your main battle involves your hero fighting your villain, neither one are battling alone. The hero has allies and your villain has his...
Read More »

Change and Growth

October 18, 2009
In too many bad movies, the hero is the only person who changes during the course of a story. In really bad movies, even the...
Read More »

Godzilla as a Story Guideline

October 12, 2009
Watch a great movie like “Casablanca” or “The Shawshank Redemption” and it’s easy to be awed by story and not be able to dissect how...
Read More »
Load More
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.

Developed by
Scroll to Top