Story Structure

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Watching the Twilight Zone as a Learning Tool

March 21, 2013

TV shows are like mini-movies in themselves and if you study the structure of telling a story through a teleplay, you can learn to apply...

Commercial vs. Art

March 15, 2013

Hollywood has already chosen the best pictures of the year at the Golden Globes and Oscars, but how come the best pictures always seem to...

Getting Started

March 8, 2013

Before you start writing, take a moment to think through your story first. Only after you have defined the framework of your story and know...

Protecting Your Story

March 2, 2013

Hollywood is famous for taking a writer’s story, twisting it apart, and churning out something completely different than what the writer intended — and then...

Naming Your Characters

February 18, 2013

Names are more than just labels to identify different characters. Names can give each character a personality that audiences may not be aware of, but...

The Zeigarnik Effect

February 5, 2013

The Zeigarnik Effect is a strange term that basically describes the “Cliffhanger” appeal of leaving an audience dangling, which whets their appetite more. This is...

Dealing with Characters

February 2, 2013

Characters form the heart of every screenplay. If nobody cares about your characters, then nobody will care about your screenplay. Here’s how to make your...

Steal This Plot

January 29, 2013

Trying to figure out a plot for your screenplay can be difficult, but it doesn’t need to be. Just steal a plot from another writer,...

The Ticking Time Bomb

January 6, 2013

A cliffhanger literally mans a point where the hero is dangling off the edge of a cliff and we want to know how he gets...

The Inciting Incident

January 2, 2013

Every screenplay needs to start off with an Inciting Incident, every Act begins with an Inciting Incident, and even every scene begins with an Inciting...

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.