Story Structure

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The Nature of Conflict

April 21, 2009

A story is only as interesting as its conflict where your hero battles to reach a goal. However, there are more than one way to...

Character vs. Self

April 15, 2009

The most interesting stories involve a character struggling with some internal flaw or mistake that’s haunting the hero. The least interesting stories are when the...

Borrowing Story Ideas

April 8, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes people make is trying to create an original story. With people creating stories for centuries, chances are good that there...

Role Playing Games as a Story Aid

April 2, 2009

One of the first role-playing games was Dungeons & Dragons. If you ever played this game, one person, called the Dungeon Master, set up the...

Creating the Perfect Hero

March 27, 2009

How do you create the best hero for your story? While there are probably a million different ways to do so, one way is to...

Repeating the Theme

March 22, 2009

Your screenplay is really just telling one story. Since you can’t tell a single story for two hours, you emphasize your main story by telling...

The Best Time to Edit Your Screenplay

March 16, 2009

When you’re writing a screenplay, there’s always a best time to edit your story and that’s before you start writing a thing. Here’s what novices...

Hit Your Hero Where It Hurts

March 10, 2009

After creating a rough story outline, a hero, and a villain, the next biggest obstacle may be creating relevant obstacles to get in the way...

The Lesson of Old Movies

February 22, 2009

Watching older movies can be interesting because you can see what used to work in the past and how older movies have changed from today’s...

Don’t Tell the Truth

February 15, 2009

The truth is usually pretty dull. When people write a story based on the truth, they often try to cram so many facts into the...

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.