The 15 Minute Movie Method

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Make Your Setting Its Own Character In Your Story

December 17, 2021
When athletes train, they often practice exercises that don’t seem related to their actual sport. For example, boxers jog and jump rope even though running...
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Making Emotion the Key to Engagement and Caring

December 13, 2021
Watch a bad movie and chances are good you don’t care what happens to the characters no matter what challenges they may go through. They...
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Copy Plots to Make Screenwriting Easier and Storytelling Less Intimidating

December 9, 2021
When people try to create a story, they often try to create something original, forgetting the fact that there are no original plots but plenty...
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Make Your Characters Empathetic Through Feeling, Not Showing

December 5, 2021
All the special effects, explosions, car crashes, and gunfire in the world won’t make your story better. That’s because visual effects are fine, but lack...
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Avoid Superficial Stories by Finding the Real Villain Inside the Hero

December 1, 2021
Here’s the simplest type of story. A good guy is trying to achieve a goal and a purely evil guy is trying to stop him....
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Every Scene is About Disrupting the Hero’s World

November 27, 2021
Would you ride a rollercoaster that never rose up or dipped down, but just took you on a ride along a flat surface? That would...
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Focus on the Characters and Then Worry About the Plot

November 23, 2021
Too often, screenwriters try to come up with an original plot that surprises audiences. Here’s he truth. Most stories recycle the same plots. If you...
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Create Three Endings to Tell an Emotionally Satisfying Story

November 19, 2021
Watch any mediocre or bad movie and the story will often feel forgettable and flat. That’s because the screenplay simply focuses on ending the story...
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Make Every Scene a Fight, Seduction, or Negotiation to Make it Interesting

November 15, 2021
For too often, novices write scenes in their screenplays that serve exactly one purpose: to provide exposition. That creates a boring scene because the entire...
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Combining the What with the Why to Create a Complete Story

November 11, 2021
Here’s what most novices do wrong. They come up with a great idea and then they start writing their screenplay. About halfway through, they run...
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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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