Story Structure

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How to Begin and End a Story

October 16, 2022

The book “Scene & Structure” offers a simple way to start and end a story. To start a story, you must understand who your hero...

Avoiding the Mistakes in “Don’t Worry Darling”

October 12, 2022

Watch a great movie and it can inspire you to achieve similar greatness. Watch a bad movie and it can inspire you to do so...

Avoid Fake Emotions in Characters to Create Better Drama

October 8, 2022

Often in poor screenplays, characters will gush emotionally about how much someone means to them. However, as the audience, all we hear is that character...

The Importance of Setting Up Payoffs in a Scene

October 4, 2022

Imagine watching a scene between two people arguing. That by itself is mildly interesting. Then one character mentions the other character’s mother and the second...

Look at Screenwriting From Multiple Points of View

September 30, 2022

It’s easy to spot novice screenplays. They often involve massive sets, special effects, and large casts along with exotic animals, spaceships, dinosaurs, or aliens. All...

Tell a Complete Story with the Beginning and the Ending Scenes

September 26, 2022

One huge mistake novice screenwriters make is that they start writing with no clear goal. They don’t know where their story is going, who their...

Know Where Your Characters Want to Go

September 22, 2022

Read most screenplays and you’ll spot the same mistakes. One common mistake is that characters speak dialogue that fails to reveal what their goals might...

Don’t Make the Same Mistakes as the Horrible “Pinocchio” Remake

September 18, 2022

The above picture is really from Disney’s latest live-action remake of “Pinocchio”. Put simply, it’s a perfectly example of what not to do when writing...

Create Real Characters to Spice Up Every Scene

September 14, 2022

One huge problem novices make is writing scenes filled with characters who take action, but who seem flat like puppets, simply taking action because that’s...

The Real Story Occurs From an Emotional Dilemma

September 10, 2022

Far too many movies focus on action, special effects, gunfire, car crashes, and stunts. This is never a formula for success (watch “Bullet Train”). At...

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.