Story Structure

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The Big Story (and the Main Story)

October 9, 2017

Every movie is about a big story and the main story. The big story is what you expect. In “Die Hard,” the big story is...

Too Many Characters Dilute a Story

October 4, 2017

“The LEGO Movie” was a surprise hit and “The LEGO Batman Movie” was also a pleasant surprise. The latest LEGO themed movie is “The LEGO...

Pornography vs. Romance

October 1, 2017

Watch a pornographic movie and you’ll see that the whole emphasis is on the physical act of sex, shot from multiple angles and engaging in...

Every Story Has a History

September 30, 2017

One of the quickest and easiest ways to run out of ideas is to start making up your story as you go along. Eventually you’ll...

Physical and Emotional Change

September 27, 2017

Here’s a quick way to judge good and bad movies. In a bad movie, there’s no emotional change. There might be plenty of physical action...

Emotionally Empty Stories

September 23, 2017

If you look on Rotten Tomatoes, two highly rated movies this past summer are “Detroit” and “Dunkirk,” both of which are based on actual events....

Every Scene Must Pull Its Own Weight

September 21, 2017

Watch any bad movie and every scene will often seem completely independent of the other scenes to the point where if you took out the...

Making the Hero Change

September 15, 2017

The best stories are when the hero changes. Typically the hero changes from living a dead end life of his or her own creation and...

Anatomy of a Good and Bad Scene

September 10, 2017

Scenes aren’t individual items but part of a whole. Every scene must be part of the overall story or else there’s no point in having...

Learning from a 0% Rotten Tomatoes Movie

September 7, 2017

No matter how bad or how good a movie might be, there will always be someone who loves or hates it anyway. That’s why finding...

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.