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Screenwriting Resources

January 23, 2010

Screenwriting software The main purpose of screenwriting software is to format a script so you can concentrate on writing. The two most popular screenwriting programs...

How to Make Your Hero Likable

January 16, 2010

You must get your audience to root for your hero. If you fail to do that, the rest of your story is pointless since the...

Tell Your Story

September 8, 2009

When people hear a story from somewhere else and retell that story, they often embellish the story to make it more dramatic and interesting. You...

The Emotional Point of View

August 23, 2009

In a bad movie, the hero seems like a cardboard puppet that the audience doesn’t really care about. Here’s how you can avoid this problem...

The Wisdom of Roald Dahl

July 12, 2009

One of the best ways to study story structure is to read children’s stories. Not only are they entertaining in themselves, but they let you...

It’s All a Fantasy

June 28, 2009

The main reason people go to movies is to lose themselves in another world. So the obvious question to ask is does your story give...

Starting Off Your Story

June 14, 2009

Start your story off with a bang and a promise. The bang grabs your audience’s attention right away and the promise keeps their attention for...

The Nature of Conflict

April 21, 2009

A story is only as interesting as its conflict where your hero battles to reach a goal. However, there are more than one way to...

Special Effects

September 8, 2008

How has the movie industry changed over the years? It’s more spectacle-driven and pre-awareness driven. In her book “Sleepless in Hollywood” author Lynda Obst makes...

The Hero’s Fatal Flaw

August 8, 2008

In the book “The Screenwriter’s Formula,” author Rob Tobin provides a great description for how to construct the hero’s fatal flaw. Creating this fatal flaw...

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.