Every story is about making the hero change and the best way to make your hero change is through...
Every story is about making the hero change and the best way to make your hero change is through...
Writers love to let their imaginations soar with grandiose ideas with starships exploring dozens of exotic planets, flying dragons...
In many movies, there’s a single main villain with an army of henchmen who constantly attack and threaten the...
In Act I, the story begins. In Act III, the hero fights the villain in the final battle where...
When most people come up with an idea for a story, they usually focus on the characters, the plot,...
Why did “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” flop at the box office? Part of the reason is that it’s...
Every tory is about change where the hero starts as one type of person and by the end of...
In every good story, your hero changes. In most cases, your hero starts off as a timid, uncertain person...
When you have an idea for a story, you never know the complete story. Instead, you often have a...
The opening scene is the most crucial scene because it’s the first impression an audience has with your story....
Screenwriting classes almost always focus on great movies for students to study. While this can show students what makes...
Comedy can be one of the hardest genres to write because you must consistently keep an audience laughing. That’s...
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.