Story Structure

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Your Hero’s Mentor

January 29, 2010

Every hero needs to learn a lesson and by learning that lesson, he (or she) can defeat the villain. To learn this lesson, you rhero...

How to Make Your Hero Likable

January 16, 2010

You must get your audience to root for your hero. If you fail to do that, the rest of your story is pointless since the...

The Purpose of Subplots

January 9, 2010

Many novice screenwriters come up with a great idea for a story — and then start writing. Inevitably, they run out of ideas and get...

Hammering Home the Theme

January 3, 2010

The theme of a story is usually the deeper message that the story wants the audience to feel. A theme isn’t necessary, but it can...

Unsatisfying Endings

December 29, 2009

The ending is the last emotional high that an audience feels right before the story ends. Thus it’s important that your ending not only peaks...

Overwriting with Too Many Explanation

December 24, 2009

In a bad movie, things seem to happen for no apparent reason, just for the convenience of the plot. In a good movie, things make...

Identifying the Hero

December 19, 2009

If you just want to enjoy a movie, you don’t really care who the hero is. If you want to study the structure of a...

It’s Always About Something Else

December 6, 2009

When James Cameron was filming “Titanic” in Mexico near San Diego, a friend of mine got hired as an extra, playing a dead person floating...

Subplots

November 29, 2009

What most people do is they get a good idea and start writing. Then their story runs out of team around page 60 and they...

Personifying the Villain

November 23, 2009

Most plots can be summed up as simply as Man vs. Man, but some plots are more like Man vs. Nature. So how do you...

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.