The three most important characters are your villain, hero, and mentor. All three of these characters need to have...
The three most important characters are your villain, hero, and mentor. All three of these characters need to have...
In a typical story, the hero starts off with a character flaw, learns to overcome it, and then lives...
One of the best ways to study story structure is to read children’s stories. Not only are they entertaining...
In many bad movies, there’s a tendency to throw everything at the viewer and hope that by some miracle...
The main reason people go to movies is to lose themselves in another world. So the obvious question to...
Watch a bad movie and what happens? Nothing important seems to happen and your mind starts to wander. One...
Start your story off with a bang and a promise. The bang grabs your audience’s attention right away and...
To get good at anything, you need to study it and practice it. If you want to be a...
From the beginning, your story has to grab the audience, but more importantly, it has to set the tone...
In most movies, the villain starts off as a bad guy and remains a bad guy. That’s fine, but...
The key to a bad movie is that the hero never changes or learns anything. The key to a...
What’s more appealing? Seeing someone attractive who you have never seen before? Or seeing someone attractive who you’ve known...
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.