Story Structure

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Presenting Exposition in an Interesting Manner

April 9, 2016

Exposition is necessary to set up a story. In mediocre movies like “Batman vs. Superman,” they simply skip most exposition and assume you know the...

Make Character Introductions Interesting

April 2, 2016

There’s a saying that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. With that in mind, what kind of impression do your...

Batman vs. Superman

March 30, 2016

If you’ve been following the reviews of the “Batman vs. Superman” movie, you’ll know that it hasn’t been well received by the critics. If you...

Peel Back the Mystery

March 26, 2016

To keep your story interesting, create a mystery and then gradually reveal that mystery. In Act I, you introduce that mystery. In Act IIa you...

Keep Trying to Succeed

March 23, 2016

This blog post title (Keep Trying to Succeed) can apply both to your own dreams of writing and selling a screenplay as well as the...

Verbal Jousting

March 20, 2016

In the old days, knights would compete by jousting. That would involve charging at each other on horseback with a lance with the intent of...

Keep Your Story’s Promise Four Times

March 17, 2016

Every movie consists of four Acts. In a 120-minute movie, each Act is 30 minutes. Within each Act, you absolutely must keep your story’s promise...

The Mentor’s Redemption

March 14, 2016

Most screenwriting books tell you to focus on the hero, but if you only focus on the hero, you’ll risk creating a plodding, narrowly focused...

Everything Falls Apart After the Midpoint

March 11, 2016

By the middle of your story, everything should look like your hero is going to succeed. Then immediately afterwards, everything starts falling apart rapidly. The...

Make the Hero’s Motivation Clear

March 8, 2016

The most important part of the beginning is making the hero’s goal clear and understandable. Once we know why the hero wants something and why...

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.