Story Structure

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Introducing the Mentor as Someone Seemingly Useless

June 2, 2024

No hero can succeed on their own. The only way a hero can succeed is through the guidance of a mentor. Ideally, this mentor should...

Create Greater Tension by Defining the Stakes of a Story

May 29, 2024

In every story, there’s a dilemma. If the hero succeeds, they’ll achieve a goal but if they fail, they’ll risk wrecking their lives somehow. In...

How to Create a Dramatic Scene

May 25, 2024

Most writers write boring scenes where nothing happens. If they do write a scene where something happens, it’s nothing memorable. So if you want to...

Write More Compelling Scenes Using Chaos

May 21, 2024

Write great scenes and you’ll write a great screenplay. Write boring scenes and you’ll never write a great screenplay. What makes a scene boring is...

Define the Midpoint to Structure Your Story

May 17, 2024

When most people get an idea for a story, they rush to write the screenplay. This usually lasts for 20 pages or so before the...

Write Stronger Stories by Foreshadowing Everything

May 13, 2024

Far too many novices write screenplays that consist of scenes that serve one purpose and then get discarded and forgotten. The key to writing scenes,...

Write Stronger Stories by Adding Foreshadowing in Every Scene

May 9, 2024

Novices tend to write scenes that have no connection or relation to any other scene. That makes every scene feel completely separate and isolated from...

Think of Dialogue as a Battle of Words

May 5, 2024

In action films, it’s easy to see two people physically fighting each other to achieve a goal where only one can win. When you watch...

The Difference Between a Great Scene and a Dull Scene

May 1, 2024

Scenes represent the building blocks of every story so if you have a dull scene, you’ll have a dull story. That’s why you must make...

Change a Character’s World by the End of Every Scene

April 27, 2024

Imagine story where a man wakes up, drives to work, does his job, and goes home. If nothing out of the ordinary happens, this scene...

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.