The 15 Minute Movie Method

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Planting Setups

January 13, 2016
Every important story plot must be set up ahead of time. First, this item must be highlighted somehow to make it memorable although initially it...
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Creating a Story in Layers

January 9, 2016
At the very least, your screenplay needs a hero pursuing a goal. The pursuit of that goal creates conflict that makes your story interesting. The...
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The Unsolvable Dilemma

January 6, 2016
The ending makes the biggest impact so you need to plan your ending before you start writing and write yourself straight into a dead end....
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Keep Every Scene Interesting

January 3, 2016
Watch a typical baseball game and at the very least, it’s interesting because you want to know who will win in the end, even if...
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The Tortured Hero

December 31, 2015
The biggest battle is never between the hero and the villain. Bad movies make this mistake all the time and think that if the battle...
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Make the Villain Likable

December 28, 2015
There’s nothing scarier than a villain you admire. If you make a villain totally evil, it’s easy to hate him, but if you make the...
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Keep Compounding the Problems

December 25, 2015
In every story, there’s an initial problem that the hero wants to solve. If that’s the only problem in your story, you’ve got a dull...
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The Lessons From “The Good Dinosaur”

December 22, 2015
Pixar usually makes decent movies. Yet one of their latest movies, “The Good Dinosaur,” had a troubled history. Apparently Pixar animated most of the film...
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Telling Stories Like a Comic Book

December 19, 2015
To help you visualize your story, think of how your story might look as a comic book. Doing this will force you to focus more...
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Analyze a Scene in Three Ways

December 16, 2015
Every scene is one of many building blocks to create your overall story. Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link,...
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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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