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One of the quickest and easiest ways to run out of ideas is to start making up your story...

Here’s a quick way to judge good and bad movies. In a bad movie, there’s no emotional change. There...

If you look on Rotten Tomatoes, two highly rated movies this past summer are “Detroit” and “Dunkirk,” both of...

Watch any bad movie and every scene will often seem completely independent of the other scenes to the point...

The best stories are when the hero changes. Typically the hero changes from living a dead end life of...

Scenes aren’t individual items but part of a whole. Every scene must be part of the overall story or...

In every good story, the hero has a fear that he or she hopes will never happen. That’s why...

What makes a story particularly fascinating is when the hero gets him for herself trapped in an unsolvable dilemma...

Act I poses a question that finally gets answered in Act III. In romantic comedies, Act I poses the...

A typical 120-minute movie can be divided into four Acts of 30 minutes each: Act I Act IIa Act...

Initially, the hero and villain have no idea the other person even exists. To bring the two of them...