Story Structure

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Every Scene Should Change Someone’s Life

February 23, 2019

What’s exciting to watch? Two people sitting at a table doing nothing or two people sitting at a table, arguing, then making up and leaving...

Resisting Emotional Change, Part IIa

February 20, 2019

In Act I (the first 30 minutes of a two hour movie), the hero has an unresolved emotional problem: The hero is stuck in a...

The Four Stages of Emotional Change, Part I

February 17, 2019

Every good story is really about emotional change. Forget about all the special effects and action. Without an underlying emotional story, more car crashes, gunfire,...

Make the Motivation Clear

February 13, 2019

In a bad movie, things seem to happen for no apparent reason. When the reason behind the plot doesn’t make sense, then the story is...

The Emotional Story is Foundation of a Good Story

February 7, 2019

There are two zombie movies that make fun of a potential zombie apocalypse: “Shaun of the Dead” and “Anna and the Apocalypse.” Although both movies...

Put Emotion in Every Scene

February 4, 2019

Musicals tell a story through song, but the songs they sing are no different than ordinary dialogue in a scene. Songs, like dialogue in a...

Every Scene Needs to Show Emotional Change

February 1, 2019

The reason people watch movies like “Star Wars” or “Titanic” over and over again isn’t because they want to see the Death Star blow up...

What Does the Hero Want?

January 29, 2019

Right from the start, you have to define what your hero wants. Then in the end, you have to answer the question whether the hero...

Iconic Scenes

January 26, 2019

Every movie follows a specific genre. In most cases, a movie actually follows two genres where one genre defines the story and the second genre...

Songs in Musicals Tell a Story

January 23, 2019

Musicals tells story through song. In good musicals, just by listening to each song, you can understand what the hero wants, what the villain wants,...

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.