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The Red Flags of Rejection: You Only Have One Chance to Make a Good First Impression

July 5, 2022
Every year, people write thousands of screenplays. Out of those thousands, a very small percentage are actually any good. Out of that small percentage of...
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How to Grab the Audience’s Attention with Meaningful Choices

July 1, 2022
Conflict is the heart of any story. If there’s no conflict, there’s no story because there’s nothing for the characters to do. However, there are...
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Spicing Up Scenes with Memorable Characters

June 27, 2022
Novices often write boring scenes. Imagine someone reading your screenplay for the first time and randomly jumping to any spot in your script. If that...
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Grab Attention by Writing Dialogue as a Weapon

June 23, 2022
Far too often, screenwriters write scenes that serve no other purpose than to provide information to the reader. This almost guarantees the scene will be...
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3 Ways to Create More Exciting Scenes

June 19, 2022
The biggest and most common flaw of most screenwriters is writing boring scenes. The scenes are boring for two reasons. First, nothing happens. There may...
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Creating Tension and by Defining What Characters Are Hiding

June 15, 2022
“27 Essential Principles of Story” by Daniel Joshua Rubin offers incredibly useful tips for creating stories with rich, detailed, and engaging characters. One useful principle...
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How to Create Stronger Characters (Without Writing Lots of Biography)

June 11, 2022
There’s an excellent story writing book called “27 Essential Principles of Story” by Daniel Joshua Rubin. One useful principle for developing characters is to identify...
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Know Your Story As Much as Possible

June 7, 2022
Here’s how to write a weak screenplay. Start with a brief, vague idea and start writing. Chances are extremely good you’ll write about events that...
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Creating Humor with Unusual Juxtapositions

June 3, 2022
Many people think that comedy involves characters saying jokes to each other. In most cases, that’s exactly what comedy is NOT. Instead, comedy comes from...
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Study the Original Twilight Zone Episodes to Learn Story Telling

May 30, 2022
The original Twilight Zone series is an excellent source of inspiration for filmmaking for multiple reasons. First, the series ran on a limited budget so...
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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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