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The best stories are self-contained tales. The worst stories rely on the audience knowing something outside of the movie,...

Your villain must be an integral part of your story from start to finish. Fail to do that and...

Romantic comedies follow the same four-part structure: Boy and Girl are lonely, Boy meets Girl, Boy loses Girl, and...

If nobody cares about your hero, your story is sunk right from the start. Here are some techniques to...

The most interesting stories involve a character struggling with some internal flaw or mistake that’s haunting the hero. The...

One of the biggest mistakes people make is trying to create an original story. With people creating stories for...

One of the first role-playing games was Dungeons & Dragons. If you ever played this game, one person, called...

How do you create the best hero for your story? While there are probably a million different ways to...

Your screenplay is really just telling one story. Since you can’t tell a single story for two hours, you...

After creating a rough story outline, a hero, and a villain, the next biggest obstacle may be creating relevant...