Story Structure

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Introduce Exposition as a Weapon or Path to Attack or Help the Hero

July 21, 2022

Novices often do information dumps where a character vomits out information solely for the audience to understand the story. This often creates phony dialogue like...

Make the Setting a Character in a Scene

July 17, 2022

A good rule of thumb is that if the action and dialogue in a scene could take place in a submarine, in a field, or...

Make Every Character a Mirror of the Hero

July 13, 2022

Every story is about resolving a single problem. In “Soul,” that question is what is a soul’s purpose? In “Titanic,” that question is how do...

How to Grab the Audience’s Attention with Meaningful Choices

July 1, 2022

Conflict is the heart of any story. If there’s no conflict, there’s no story because there’s nothing for the characters to do. However, there are...

Spicing Up Scenes with Memorable Characters

June 27, 2022

Novices often write boring scenes. Imagine someone reading your screenplay for the first time and randomly jumping to any spot in your script. If that...

Grab Attention by Writing Dialogue as a Weapon

June 23, 2022

Far too often, screenwriters write scenes that serve no other purpose than to provide information to the reader. This almost guarantees the scene will be...

3 Ways to Create More Exciting Scenes

June 19, 2022

The biggest and most common flaw of most screenwriters is writing boring scenes. The scenes are boring for two reasons. First, nothing happens. There may...

Creating Tension and by Defining What Characters Are Hiding

June 15, 2022

“27 Essential Principles of Story” by Daniel Joshua Rubin offers incredibly useful tips for creating stories with rich, detailed, and engaging characters. One useful principle...

How to Create Stronger Characters (Without Writing Lots of Biography)

June 11, 2022

There’s an excellent story writing book called “27 Essential Principles of Story” by Daniel Joshua Rubin. One useful principle for developing characters is to identify...

Know Your Story As Much as Possible

June 7, 2022

Here’s how to write a weak screenplay. Start with a brief, vague idea and start writing. Chances are extremely good you’ll write about events that...

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.