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Great Books to Learn More About Storytelling

June 26, 2021

I once heard that if you read five books on any topic, you’ll know more about that topic than the vast majority of the public....

Three Story Plots

November 22, 2019

When athletes train, they off cross-train. That means they perform exercises that may not be directly related to their sport but can improve their performance...

“The Hunger Games” vs. “Divergent”

November 1, 2019

When “The Hunger Games” became a hit movie, Hollywood rushed multiple young adult (YA) movies into production based on best-selling YA novels. Unfortunately, “The Hunger...

Ways to Start a Story

September 8, 2019

If you want to make your stories more emotionally engaging, there’s an excellent book by David Freeman called “Creating Emotion in Games.” While the book...

How to Be Like Walt

July 15, 2019

Walt Disney created an entire movie empire based on cartoons and then on live-action films. Disney also created the amazing Disneyland theme park that’s the...

Learning Storytelling Techniques From Pixar

April 11, 2018

Pixar has created some of the best movies in the past few decades. Although they’ve had a few misfires (“Cars 2” and “The Good Dinosaur”), even...

Make Your Setting Stress Your Characters

March 19, 2018

The setting of any scene should never be arbitrary. Every scene setting should be chosen to maximize conflict and stress between the characters involved. Rather...

6th Edition of “The 15-Minute Movie Method” Now Available

February 9, 2018

The 6th edition of “The 15-Minute Movie Method” is now available with revised and new chapters although you can simply find all the new information...

Kill the Villain

December 10, 2017

If you want to write a mediocre movie, let the villain live. Even worse, let the hero go through the bulk of your story without...

“Writing Scenes for Screenplays” Released

August 14, 2017

“Writing Scenes for Screenplays” is an updated and retitled edition of my previous “Making a Scene” book about writing scenes. This updated version includes more...

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.