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15 Minutes a Day

January 12, 2013

Slow and steady progress beats hasty, sporadic effort every time. If you want to succeed, spend at least 15 minutes every day working on your...

Why Movies Suck

December 10, 2012

Hollywood pumps out a lot of bad movies. After watching a really bad movie, you may feel like you’ve lost had two hours of your...

Screenwriting Software

December 6, 2012

Many people believe that getting the right software is crucial to success as a screenwriter. That’s like saying getting the right pencil is crucial to...

The Bankruptcy of Ideas

December 2, 2012

Hollywood keeps remaking old movies, TV shows, and even video games. Why the bankruptcy of ideas in Hollywood can be a good thing for an...

Stanley Kubrick and the Visual Nature of Film

October 3, 2012

Watch any ordinary film and you’ll see an over reliance on visual spectacles like car crashes or helicopters blowing up. Watch any Stanley Kubrick film...

May 28, 2012

Everyone has heard of horror stories of Hollywood butchering a script and turning something wonderful into a pile of garbage. However, it often works the...

Fail As Fast As You Can

May 17, 2012

Thomas Edison reportedly went through 10,000 failed designs for the light bulb. When asked about so many failures, Edison reportedly replied, “I didn’t fail 10,000...

Special Effects

May 12, 2012

Special effects are like cotton candy for the eyes. They look good and they grab an audience’s attention, but there’s a better way to make...

Seeing Movies Twice

April 28, 2012

‘If you’re an aspiring screenwriter, you must watch movies, but you need to do more than that. You must also read movies as well. If...

Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

March 26, 2012

‘There’s an old saying that too many ccooks in the kitchen spoil the broth. Essentially this means if too many people try to create soemthing,...

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.