The 15 Minute Movie Method

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Twist Expectations in Two Parts

April 16, 2017
In nearly every story that contains a single, dominant villain, there’s a twist in the story. In the first half of the tory, the audience...
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How Every Scene Should End

April 13, 2017
Think of a row of dominoes set up on a table. Tip one over and the rest fall over one after another. That’s exactly how...
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Set the Tone Early

April 10, 2017
The opening scene should summarize the story in a nutshell, although initially we may not understand what’s going on. The opening scene in “Rocky” shows...
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Learning From Bad Movies like “Ghost in the Shell”

April 7, 2017
When you watch a great movie, it can inspire you or make you feel inferior because you might think you could never do anything so...
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Defining the Mentor

April 4, 2017
Three of the most important characters in any story are the hero, the villain, and the mentor. Fortunately, once you know one of these characters,...
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How to End a Scene

April 1, 2017
What makes a dull story? When things are predictable. What makes an exciting story? When things are not only unpredictable, but logical as well. The...
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Appealing to Script Readers with Loaded Words

March 29, 2017
Pick up any horror novel by authors like Stephen King and turn to any page at random. No matter what paragraph you read, it will...
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Making Every Scene Memorable

March 25, 2017
Every scene in a screenplay must serve multiple purposes. First, the scene must advance the plot, but far more importantly, every scene must show change....
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Focusing on Internal Conflict

March 22, 2017
External conflict is easy to see. That’s what you see in trailers where the hero is facing the villain and lots of explosions, gunfire, and...
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Internal and External Conflict

March 19, 2017
All stories are about conflict. A story without any type of conflict is nothing more than a bunch of people sitting around talking. The two...
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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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