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Every hero needs a mentor to teach him or her how to change. Sometimes the mentor dies before the...

It doesn’t matter how strong your hero might be, he or she always needs to be the underdog. In...

Watch a bad movie and no matter how many car crashes or explosions you see, the movie can still...

One of the most common screenwriting mistakes is that a screenwriter will come up with a handful of action...

The beginning of your story needs to grab the audience right away and let them know what type of...

Every hero has a certain, useful skill. However, there must be limitations to that skill. If that skill can...

Most people underwrite their stories. By that I mean that they don’t write enough. Instead of letting us know...

Watch a bad movie and your mind will start to drift away because you don’t know what’s going on...

Every movie starts off with a compelling dilemma, which defines the initial Big Question. In the upcoming movie “Gravity,”...

The other day I watched the second James Bond movie, “From Russia with Love.” The story isn’t bad but...

I heard an interesting interview with the original writers of “Toy Story.” The writers knew at the end that...