The 15 Minute Movie Method

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How to Create an Emotional Story

December 29, 2018
When most people come up with a story, they focus on the high-concept idea. In “Bumblebee,” the latest Transformers movie, that high-concept could be what...
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The YA Genre

December 26, 2018
The YA (Young Adult) genre has been hot ever since the success of “The Hunger Games” and “Twilight.” However, since then, there have been many...
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The Hero Must Be Proactive

December 23, 2018
The quickest way to make a boring story is to forget the number rule of storytelling: the hero must be proactive. That means whatever happens,...
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The Failure of “Mortal Engines”

December 20, 2018
One of the latest box office bombs of 2018 is “Mortal Engines.” The movie is based on a science fiction novel about cites that move...
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The Awful Truth in Act IIb

December 16, 2018
Break a two hour screenplay into four, 30-minute segments and you get the following: Act I – Introduce the hero’s emotional dream Act IIa –...
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The Emotional Journey

December 13, 2018
Strip away the emotional change in a hero and you wind up with a story heavy on action but empty of feeling, and that’s the...
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Four Types of Obstacles

December 10, 2018
Conflict is the heart of every story and what creates conflict are obstacles. The purpose of any obstacle is to keep characters from achieving their...
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Plot and Story

December 7, 2018
There’s a huge difference between plot and story. Plot is what happens and this is easy to visualize in a pitch such as “a lone...
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Dialogue Must Be Interesting

December 6, 2018
In too many cases, novice screenwriters write dialogue that explains too much. You can see this in bad movies when the villain tells the hero...
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The Key Emotional Motivating Factors

December 4, 2018
Every story is about emotional change. If a story lacks emotional change, it will likely be dull and boring. People aren’t watching “The Spy Who...
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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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