Story Structure

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Starting Off Your Story

June 14, 2009

Start your story off with a bang and a promise. The bang grabs your audience’s attention right away and the promise keeps their attention for...

Watching Movies for Free

June 8, 2009

To get good at anything, you need to study it and practice it. If you want to be a screenwriter, you need to not only...

The Opening Defines the Tone

June 2, 2009

From the beginning, your story has to grab the audience, but more importantly, it has to set the tone for what type of story you’re...

A Study of Heroes and Villains

May 28, 2009

In most movies, the villain starts off as a bad guy and remains a bad guy. That’s fine, but in bad movies, the hero also...

Multiple Characters Pursue Multiple Goal

May 21, 2009

The key to a bad movie is that the hero never changes or learns anything. The key to a really bad movie is when all...

Posing Questions, Not Giving Answers

May 15, 2009

What’s more appealing? Seeing someone attractive who you have never seen before? Or seeing someone attractive who you’ve known for years and know all of...

Breaking the Fourth Wall

May 12, 2009

The best stories are self-contained tales. The worst stories rely on the audience knowing something outside of the movie, which is similar to theater where...

Why Your Villain Must Define Your Story

May 6, 2009

Your villain must be an integral part of your story from start to finish. Fail to do that and you’ll create a less compelling story...

Romantic Comedies

May 2, 2009

Romantic comedies follow the same four-part structure: Boy and Girl are lonely, Boy meets Girl, Boy loses Girl, and Boy finally gets Girl. Although the...

Making Characters Interesting

April 25, 2009

If nobody cares about your hero, your story is sunk right from the start. Here are some techniques to consider to make your hero one...

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.