Story Structure

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Force Your Hero Into Three Major Decisions

December 17, 2024

What makes a great story? It’s not more action, A-list actors, or more realistic special effects. What makes a great story is watching a hero...

Every Scene is a Fractal of Your Larger Story

November 27, 2024

If you’ve ever seen a fractal, it’s a geometric pattern that endless repeats itself. This creates beauty, harmony, and art, which is exactly what you...

Why Your Scenes Don’t Work

November 23, 2024

Here’s how most novices write a scene. They try to describe a scene as realistic as possible. The end result is a scene that’s boring...

Start Your Story with the Beginning and the End

November 19, 2024

Many writers have an idea for a story but often no clear idea how to start or end it. If that describes your dilemma, stop...

Make Sure Your Story Works Before You Start Writing

November 11, 2024

One mistake many people make is they try to turn an event from their own lives into a screenplay. This typically means the writer obsesses...

How to Write a Scene

November 7, 2024

When writing a screenplay, the last thing you should do is touch your screenwriting word processor. Yet that’s usually the first thing most people do,...

In Every Scene, Nothing Goes As Expected

October 31, 2024

Here’s how to write a boring scene. Introduce a scene where the hero expects something to happen. Then show that expectation happening exactly as the...

What Does Your Story’s Action Mean?

October 17, 2024

When most people come up with an idea for a story, they focus on the action. By making the action as interesting and unusual as...

Two Key Ingredients to Making a Great Story

October 13, 2024

Read this article about “The Shawshank Redemption”, a movie that initially bombed at the box office but has since grown in status as one of...

Why Should Anyone Care About Your Story?

October 9, 2024

When creating a story, the first step is defining why anyone would care about your story. To make people care about your story, you need...

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.