The 15 Minute Movie Method

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Study Mediocre Movies

July 13, 2020
If you only watch great movies, it’s easy to get discouraged. If you watch bad movies, you can be inspired to know you could do...
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Give Your Setting a Personality

July 9, 2020
Imagine a story where you could take the exact same characters, move them to another city, and the story would be exactly the same. If...
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Borrow Plots and Execute Them Differently

July 7, 2020
One of the hardest parts about writing a screenplay is not only coming up with a plot, but also coming up with characters and a...
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Idea + Execution = Blockbuster

July 3, 2020
To sell a screenplay in Hollywood, you need a great idea, one that grabs someone’s attention and makes them think, “Why didn’t I think of...
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Scenes Need Two Stories at Once

June 30, 2020
Read screenplays and you’ll notice one thing. Every scene typically has two things going on at once. If a scene fails to include two stories,...
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Solve One Problem Multiple Ways

June 27, 2020
When many people start writing a story, they quickly lose focus and wind up writing themselves into a dead end where they have no idea...
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How to Add Surprise in Every Scene

June 24, 2020
The purpose of a scene is to move the story along. However, the only way a scene can move the story along is if it...
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Practicing Writing Screenplays

June 21, 2020
The hardest part about writing a screenplay is that you have to write a script and come up with a story. Far too many people...
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Action, Appearance, and Setting

June 18, 2020
Watch any silent movie and you can figure out the story just by seeing the action alone. That’s the way all screenplays work. Action is...
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Everything Conspires Against the Hero

June 13, 2020
If you remember watching Saturday morning cartoons, occasionally a character would face a dilemma and that’s when an angel and a devil would pop up...
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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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