Story Structure

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It’s All About the Characters

November 19, 2019

Hollywood loves to focus on action that involves multi-million dollar budgets. Then they wonder when these multimillion dollar movies flop at the box office. It’s...

What Does Your Hero Want?

November 16, 2019

As soon as possible, make it obvious what your hero wants because that desire will drive the rest of your story. However, you don’t want...

The Hero Has One Problem

November 13, 2019

Bad movies tend to have no focus. Watch a bad movie like “The Spy Who Dumped Me” and none of the characters have reacted problems...

Creating Obstacles in a Scene

November 10, 2019

In every scene, a main character wants something. What makes a scene interesting is watching that character struggling to get it. The book “Make a...

“Parasite” A South Korean Film

November 7, 2019

As a screenwriter, don’t limit yourself to watching only movies from your own country. For many Americans, that means only watching American movies but movies...

Lessons From “The Twilight Zone”

November 4, 2019

The original “Twilight Zone” TV series had a tight budget. Despite depicting creatures from other worlds, ghosts, supernatural events, and other planets, “The Twilight Zone”...

“The Hunger Games” vs. “Divergent”

November 1, 2019

When “The Hunger Games” became a hit movie, Hollywood rushed multiple young adult (YA) movies into production based on best-selling YA novels. Unfortunately, “The Hunger...

Make the Inner Conflict a Tug of War of Emotions

October 29, 2019

Conflict is never about car chases, gunfire, and explosions. Conflict is always about challenging the hero’s indecision between staying stuck in the past or changing...

The Past Defines the Theme

October 26, 2019

It’s easy to come up with a high-concept idea and start writing. However, it’s hard to make anyone care about any high-concept idea if there’s...

Surprise Us!

October 23, 2019

Nothing’s more boring than a scene where two people talk and nothing happens. There’s no arguing, no fighting, nothing. That’s a dull scene. OF course,...

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.