The 15 Minute Movie Method

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Every Story Has a History

September 30, 2017
One of the quickest and easiest ways to run out of ideas is to start making up your story as you go along. Eventually you’ll...
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Physical and Emotional Change

September 27, 2017
Here’s a quick way to judge good and bad movies. In a bad movie, there’s no emotional change. There might be plenty of physical action...
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Emotionally Empty Stories

September 23, 2017
If you look on Rotten Tomatoes, two highly rated movies this past summer are “Detroit” and “Dunkirk,” both of which are based on actual events....
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Every Scene Must Pull Its Own Weight

September 21, 2017
Watch any bad movie and every scene will often seem completely independent of the other scenes to the point where if you took out the...
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Making the Hero Change

September 15, 2017
The best stories are when the hero changes. Typically the hero changes from living a dead end life of his or her own creation and...
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Anatomy of a Good and Bad Scene

September 10, 2017
Scenes aren’t individual items but part of a whole. Every scene must be part of the overall story or else there’s no point in having...
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Learning from a 0% Rotten Tomatoes Movie

September 7, 2017
No matter how bad or how good a movie might be, there will always be someone who loves or hates it anyway. That’s why finding...
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The Hero’s Biggest Fear

September 4, 2017
In every good story, the hero has a fear that he or she hopes will never happen. That’s why you need to make sure that...
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The Unsolvable Dilemma

September 1, 2017
What makes a story particularly fascinating is when the hero gets him for herself trapped in an unsolvable dilemma created by the hero. In “Captain...
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The Symbol of Hope in Act III

August 29, 2017
Act I poses a question that finally gets answered in Act III. In romantic comedies, Act I poses the question on whether the hero will...
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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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