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When you first start creating your story, you may try to create an original story, but there are no...

One of the best ways to build suspense and anticipation is to create a mystery, and one of the...

At the simplest, most melodramatic level, a hero faces problems that come solely from an outside source such as...

Watch an old movie like “Citizen Kane” or “It’s a Wonderful Life” and the story structure still feels modern...

Watch most James Bond movies and Q, the gadget making genius of the British Secret Service, always comes up...

Hollywood loves definite endings where good clearly triumphs over evil, or in rare cases such as tragedies, where the...

Think about your movie idea and ask if there’s inherent conflict right from the start. For example, in “Warrior,”...

Watch any commercial and you can see a mini-story being told. First there’s a problem. Second, there’s a solution....

Before you start writing your screenplay, make sure you know the type of story you want to tell. You...

Rarely will any story consist of a single story. Most likely, the hero will be pursing the main story...