Story Structure

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Crafting a Pitch

May 27, 2015

Here’s how most people write a screenplay. They come up with an interesting idea and start writing. Then they run out of gas less than...

Put Your Hero in a Dark Spot Early

May 25, 2015

In the beginning of your story, your hero is in a dead end life. The more awful you make this early introduction to your hero’s...

How to Write Dialogue

May 24, 2015

The biggest mistake novices make with dialogue is that they use dialogue to provide information to the audience. Don’t do that. Instead, make the audience...

“Four Screenplays” by William Goldman

May 21, 2015

William Goldman has written some of the best movies in the past few decades that you can learn much about screenwriting structure by reading some...

The Eight Segments of Story Telling

May 17, 2015

Take a two hour movie (120 minutes) and break it into eight 15-minute segments where each 15-minute segment tells an interesting story. If you study...

Tell an Interesting Story

May 14, 2015

One of the biggest problems with most novice screenplays is that the screenwriter buys an expensive screenwriting program like Final Draft or Movie Magic and...

Same Idea, Different Stories

May 11, 2015

One fallacy about writing is that you need to come up with an original plot. That’s basically impossible because humanity has been around for so...

Make it Visual

May 4, 2015

Before you write a single word of dialogue, focus on telling a story through actions alone. Visual actions make far more of an impact on...

Make Your Villain Fascinating

May 2, 2015

Compare the the original Avengers movie with the latest “Age of Ultron” sequel. In the first Avengers movie, the villain was Loki, who’s a fascinating...

Putting the Audience in the Story

May 1, 2015

You can’t literally put the audience in your story. However, you can create a compelling emotion in your story that makes audiences see themselves in...

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.