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If you just want to enjoy a movie, you don’t really care who the hero is. If you want...

When James Cameron was filming “Titanic” in Mexico near San Diego, a friend of mine got hired as an...

What most people do is they get a good idea and start writing. Then their story runs out of...

Most plots can be summed up as simply as Man vs. Man, but some plots are more like Man...

Here’s a one-dimensional story. A villain is doing something bad for the sake of being evil, and the hero...

Take a true story and it’s rarely interesting when told factually. Most true stories have long periods of time...

Your villain has a goal that has nothing to do with your hero. Your hero also has a goal...

A plot tells what happens. A story tells how it happens. A theme defines the purpose of the story...

Even though your main battle involves your hero fighting your villain, neither one are battling alone. The hero has...

In too many bad movies, the hero is the only person who changes during the course of a story....

Watch a great movie like “Casablanca” or “The Shawshank Redemption” and it’s easy to be awed by story and...