Inspiration

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Art as Frozen Emotion

February 15, 2014

Some of the greatest works of art were inspired by intense emotion. When Ray Bradbury wrote his famous novel “Fahrenheit 451,” he did so in...

Coming Up With Ideas

February 14, 2014

Before you can even start writing a screenplay, you need an idea. Start by summarizing your story in one sentence. Your story idea should contain...

Values, Ambitions, and Goals

February 1, 2014

There’s a great book on story telling called “Writing Fiction for Dummies” Although the book focuses mostly on novel writing, the principles can be applied...

Watching Good Movies

January 20, 2014

Just visit “Crackle” and you can see a lot of bad movies that you may never have heard about. Life’s too short to waste time...

Coming Up with Titles

January 16, 2014

When people start writing a screenplay, they often come up with a title to help them focus. Ideally, a title captures the essence of a...

10 Worst Movies of 2013

December 20, 2013

Yahoo! has a list of their ten worst movies of 2013 and four of them are sequels. The biggest problem with sequels is that they...

10 Worst Movie Endings

December 16, 2013

Yahoo! has a short video that lists one critic’s top ten worst movie endings of all time. Even if you haven’t seen all of these...

Remakes and Sequels

September 11, 2013

Hollywood’s obsessed with endless remakes and sequels because they want a “sure-thing” with a movie that makes a profit. Unfortunately even with remakes and sequels,...

Persistence and Determination

July 28, 2013

‘A year ahead of me in my high school was a guy named Sam Raimi, who later went on to direct the Spiderman trilogy. I...

The Tentpole Collapse

July 24, 2013

At a recent panel discussion at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predicted that the studios couldn’t afford to invest massive amounts of money...

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.