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Force Your Hero Into Making Tough Choices

If you want to create a memorable character, start with the choices they make. The toughest choices for any...

Story Structure

April 9, 2025/

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Make Sure Every Scene Changes Your Hero

A screenplay should be like a roller coaster. Right from the start it should promise an exciting ride and...

Story Structure

April 5, 2025/

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What is Your Real Goal as a Screenwriter?

Your beginning shapes your ending. That doesn’t just apply to your story but to your career as a screenwriter....

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April 1, 2025/

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Why Your Scenes Aren’t Working

Most people write bad scenes. The main reason why so many people write awful scenes is that they don’t...

Story Structure

March 28, 2025/

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How to Complete the Second Half of a Screenplay

It’s easy to start a screenplay. It’s much harder to finish it. Starting a screenplay takes little thought or...

Story Structure

March 24, 2025/

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Your Screenwriting Word Processor is a Liability

When most people want to write a screenplay, the first thing they do is rush out and buy a...

Software

March 20, 2025/

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How to Make a Story Meaningful

All the action in the world will not make your story better. Just look at recent Hollywood bombs like...

Story Structure

March 16, 2025/

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What’s the Best Software for Screenwriting?

Many people want to know what’s the best software to help them write screenplays. The answer is none. The...

Software

March 12, 2025/

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Never Stop Learning (A Health Update)

Like many people, I’ve always wanted to write a screenplay and see my story get turned into a movie....

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March 8, 2025/

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Keep Increasing the Danger to the Hero

The only way to improve as a screenwriter is to write. That means you must practice writing as often...

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March 5, 2025/

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Keep the Audience in Suspense

Every story must grab and hold the audience’s attention. One of the best ways to do this right from...

Story Structure

February 20, 2025/

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Make Sure Every Scene Contains Conflict

Every scene must grab and hold an audience’s attention. The best way to do that is to create conflict...

Story Structure

February 16, 2025/

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About Wallace Wang

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.