The 15 Minute Movie Method

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Make a Goal Mysterious

April 8, 2018
Either the hero’s goal or the villain’s goal needs to be mysterious. That’s because every story is really a puzzle for the audience to figure...
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The Big Challenge to the Hero

April 5, 2018
Action movies focus on explosions, car crashes, and gunfire. However, all that action is meaningless if there’s nothing behind the hero. Nobody really watches action...
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The Meaning Behind the Action

April 2, 2018
Far too many movies focus on action and forget about the human element behind that action. Specifically, we want to know how all this action...
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How Not to Write Dialogue

March 29, 2018
If you watch the movie “Pacific Rim: Uprising,” you can see a perfect example of how not to write dialogue. The main problem with the...
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The Main and Secondary Genre

March 26, 2018
Genre defines an audience’s expectations. If you have a horror story, horror fans expect to see people fleeing from a monstrous villain of some kind...
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The Ambiguous Ending

March 23, 2018
There are three types of endings. The most common is the happy ending. Far less common is the tragedy which creates a sad ending. Think...
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Make Your Setting Stress Your Characters

March 19, 2018
The setting of any scene should never be arbitrary. Every scene setting should be chosen to maximize conflict and stress between the characters involved. Rather...
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Scrivener as a Story Planning Tool

March 16, 2018
There’s a huge difference between dedicated screenwriting word processors like Final Draft and Fade In Pro, and organizing tools like Scrivener 3. Dedicated screenwriting word...
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The Story and the Real Story

March 13, 2018
Every story consists of two stories that correspond to the hero’s physical goal and the hero’s emotional dream. The hero’s physical goal is what the...
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How to Write a Great Script with Final Draft 10 Video Course

March 8, 2018
For a limited time until the end of March, you can get my “How to Write a Great Script with Final Draft 10” video course...
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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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