How do you keep a story from slowing down and dragging? Watch a bad movie like “Grandmaster” and you’ll...
How do you keep a story from slowing down and dragging? Watch a bad movie like “Grandmaster” and you’ll...
When you see a good movie, it can inspire you to achieve the same goal, but it can also...
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As soon as possible in Act I, but definitely before Act I ends, you must pose three Big Questions:...
The beginning of your story should create a Big Question in the minds of your audience as they try...
Hollywood’s obsessed with endless remakes and sequels because they want a “sure-thing” with a movie that makes a profit....
Every good movie should start off with a big question that grabs our attention from the start and carries...
The latest bad movie in theaters right now is the Chinese film “Grandmaster,” which tells the story of Ip...
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Bruce Lee’s martial arts teacher was a man known as Ip Man. One of the latest movies to tell...
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.