Story Structure

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Study Bad Movies to See What Not to Do

January 22, 2022

When you watch a great movie, it can inspire you, but can also intimidate you. After all, how can you write something even half as...

A Big Concept Needs an Emotional Foundation So We Care

January 18, 2022

Watch any bad movie and you’ll almost always find that it had an intriguing idea. “The Layover,” which has a rare 0% rating on Rotten...

Establish a Relationship and Make Us Care

January 14, 2022

Here’s a common mistake novice screenwriters make all the time. They describe a scene where someone gets killed right away. This technique was actually used...

State the Main Problem Right From the Start

January 10, 2022

Every story is about solving a single problem. That main problem must be clear and unsolved until the very end. If this main problem isn’t...

Create and Maintain a Consistent Audience Experience in Every Scene

January 6, 2022

One way to look at a story is to imagine it as a video game. In a video game, the challenges get progressively tougher, but...

Grab Audiences at the Start of Every Scene with a Question

January 2, 2022

Almost everyone can come up with a great idea for a screenplay. The hard part is turning that great idea into a collection of great...

Use Plot, Genre, and Emotion to Tell a Compelling Story

December 29, 2021

This is the way most people come up with a story. They first come up with an interesting plot. That’s step one, but then they...

Define Your Story as a Trailer to Lay Out the Plot Points

December 25, 2021

Watch trailers and you’ll immediately notice that they tell you what the story is about, the tone, who the hero is, and what the setting...

Define the Emotion of Your Story Before the Defining the Plot

December 21, 2021

If you watch any bad movie, you’ll notice they almost always start with a good idea. Where bad movies fail is that the appealing idea...

Make Your Setting Its Own Character In Your Story

December 17, 2021

When athletes train, they often practice exercises that don’t seem related to their actual sport. For example, boxers jog and jump rope even though running...

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.