Story Structure

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Making Emotion the Key to Engagement and Caring

December 13, 2021

Watch a bad movie and chances are good you don’t care what happens to the characters no matter what challenges they may go through. They...

Copy Plots to Make Screenwriting Easier and Storytelling Less Intimidating

December 9, 2021

When people try to create a story, they often try to create something original, forgetting the fact that there are no original plots but plenty...

Make Your Characters Empathetic Through Feeling, Not Showing

December 5, 2021

All the special effects, explosions, car crashes, and gunfire in the world won’t make your story better. That’s because visual effects are fine, but lack...

Avoid Superficial Stories by Finding the Real Villain Inside the Hero

December 1, 2021

Here’s the simplest type of story. A good guy is trying to achieve a goal and a purely evil guy is trying to stop him....

Every Scene is About Disrupting the Hero’s World

November 27, 2021

Would you ride a rollercoaster that never rose up or dipped down, but just took you on a ride along a flat surface? That would...

Focus on the Characters and Then Worry About the Plot

November 23, 2021

Too often, screenwriters try to come up with an original plot that surprises audiences. Here’s he truth. Most stories recycle the same plots. If you...

Create Three Endings to Tell an Emotionally Satisfying Story

November 19, 2021

Watch any mediocre or bad movie and the story will often feel forgettable and flat. That’s because the screenplay simply focuses on ending the story...

Make Every Scene a Fight, Seduction, or Negotiation to Make it Interesting

November 15, 2021

For too often, novices write scenes in their screenplays that serve exactly one purpose: to provide exposition. That creates a boring scene because the entire...

Combining the What with the Why to Create a Complete Story

November 11, 2021

Here’s what most novices do wrong. They come up with a great idea and then they start writing their screenplay. About halfway through, they run...

Use Contrast to Create the Greatest Emotional Impact Ever

November 7, 2021

If you’ve ever been on a roller coaster, you know that you start at the bottom, then climb the biggest hill possible before diving down...

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.