Inneresting 26
issue 26
October 29, 2020
Adding a Third Wheel
Sometimes Protagonist vs. Antagonist just isn’t enough to make your scene pop. It may be time to add a Third Wheel — an outsider with their own agenda in the moment that can confound, confuse, or complicate the tension in the room. In this week’s blog post, we look at how you can create single-use characters, or repurpose existing characters in your story to add that extra bit of spice to your scene.
Pitch Perfect Needle Drops, Part 2
In a callback to Inneresting 16, online film journal Senses of Cinema has some thoughts on Pop Music and the movies. Head on over to check out essays on the key songs and soundtracks to Chungking Express, Southland Tales, Hable con ella, and many more!
Celebrating 100 Years Since Cary Grant Emigrated to America
Due to COVID-related concerns, the organizers of Bristol’s Cary Comes Home Festival have decided this year will be completely online. While the festival’s goal of celebrating the traditional cinema-going experience will need to wait for another time, there’s still plans for plenty of video essays, recorded events, and other ways to celebrate the life and work of one of 20th century film’s most charismatic and enigmatic stars.
Using Your Instagram Story For Short Stories
Just like how somebody tries to find a way to port Doom to every tech device, any new medium has somebody trying to find a way to put prose fiction on it.
Enter this handy guide for how to format your writing to share it broken up for Instagram stories.
It’s a practical guide including information about typesetting, placement of blank space for people to rest their thumb on your “pages,” and other ideas for how best to make use of the tools Instagram provides.
Highland How-To: Breaking Up Your View
Are you numbers-driven?
Some writers like to know how many words they’ve written at all times. Others want the fewest distractions possible. In Highland 2, you make the call.
To see all of a document’s stats, click the Statistics pane of the sidebar (or ⌘3). There you’ll find Pages, Reading Time, Words, Selected Words, Characters and Selected Characters.
For a at-a-glance numbers, try View > Show Status Bar. At the bottom of the window, you’ll see Characters, Words and Pages. If you select any text, Characters and Words will show just what you’ve selected.
For more tips on how to use Highland’s overrides to tweak your script to look just right, check out our knowledge base!
Other Cool Things
Matt Stevens has an online project drawing vintage book covers based on modern movies.
Merriam-Webster introduced Time Traveler, a site where you can search by year to see when words were first used in print.
With the amount of time many people are spending right now staring at screens, Shawn Blanc has some quick thoughts about how people who work with their heads should rest with their hands. For a deeper dive along these lines, check out Gary Rogowski’s Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction.
And that’s what’s inneresting this week!
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