Story Structure

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Make Sure Every Scene Contains Conflict

February 16, 2025

Every scene must grab and hold an audience’s attention. The best way to do that is to create conflict right away. Think back to the...

Make Every Scene Start with a Promise of Action

February 12, 2025

Every scene must move your story forward. One way to do that is to make sure the beginning of every scene grabs the audience’s attention...

Make Action Change Your Hero

February 8, 2025

The action of your story must change your hero. Action by itself can grab an audience’s attention but how it affects your hero is the...

Define the Inner Conflict of Your Hero

February 4, 2025

Before writing any story, define the inner conflict of your hero. Most writers focus on their plot and the action of the story, but action...

What Does Your Story Mean?

January 31, 2025

It’s never enough to focus on your story’s plot and action. Just look at the string of failures like “The Crow” remake, “Borderlands”, or even...

Understanding the Emotional Change in the Hero

January 26, 2025

It’s never enough to focus on your story’s plot and action. Just look at the string of failures like “The Crow” remake, “Borderlands”, or even...

The Four Stages of Change in the Hero

January 22, 2025

The best stories show the hero changing. The more drastic the change, the more emotional the experience. A hero who changes from a loser to...

Writing Backwards

January 17, 2025

Nearly every writer starts a story at the beginning and works their way to the end. The problem with this approach is that you often...

How to Write a Screenplay Without Writing a Screenplay

January 1, 2025

Everyone has an idea for a screenplay (especially in Los Angeles). The problem is that ideas are easy but turning an idea into a full-length,...

The Three Parts of a Great Story

December 28, 2024

Everyone wants to write a great story, but far too many writers are simply hoping and praying their idea will somehow magically work out. When...

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.