Story Structure

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Love or Survival

June 2, 2010

Stories are meant to entertain, but beyond this entertainment value, stories have also been used to reflect a culture’s values and tell a lesson. The...

Love or Survival Part 2

May 28, 2010

Love and survival are such simple goals that it’s easy for anyone, regardless of race, age, sex, culture, or environment, to relate to these problems....

Tribal Cultures

May 21, 2010

Tribal cultures offer startlingly similar rituals in raising a boy to become a man. These rituals are similar to what your hero must go through...

Substance vs. Style

May 16, 2010

Too many people focus on creating a dazzling plot loaded with action, special effects, gunfire, and explosions. Yet that’s not always the formula for success....

Tron Legacy — an Exercise in Exposition

May 10, 2010

Every story needs exposition so the audience knows who the story is about, what the hero wants, where the story takes place, and what’s happening....

The Elements of a Lousy Movie

May 3, 2010

Just as there are elements that every successful movie tends to use, so there are the same elements that every lousy movie tends to use....

Less is More

April 27, 2010

The quickest way to dilute a story is to fill it with too many characters and subplots that don’t support each other. This is why...

The Failed Goal

April 21, 2010

The beginning and ending of a movie is very similar. In both cases, the villain is trying to accomplish something at the start and by...

Discovery and Decisions

April 15, 2010

Watch a bunch of strangers in a public place like a restaurant or a coffee shop. Why are some people boring and others fascinating to...

Start with Shorts

April 9, 2010

A big screenplay is nothing more than a single story told through multiple stories. You could start by writing full-length screenplays, but that’s like learning...

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.