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Free Highland Pro Licenses for Students and Educators
Anyone who is currently enrolled in, or teaching, writing courses is now able to access a Free One-Year Highland Pro License!
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Featured Friday
Featured Friday: Witches
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we hasten the arrival of the spooky season by looking at some of our favorite cinematic witches. Our collection includes: * Chilling Adventures of Sabrina - “Chapter One: October Country”
Conclave's Ending: Treating a Twist as a Revelation
A well-executed twist leaves an audience feeling like a story makes more sense now that they know this new information. We'll unpack how Conclave's ending doesn't upend the story, but fulfills the promise of its premise.
Inneresting
🐶 #264 - Who's a good boy?
Forget saving the cat. Show the reader your hero's inner dog.
Featured Friday
Featured Friday: Love Triangles
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we celebrate Love Triangles, and how these messy relationships don’t just give us the will-they/won’t-they drama that we crave, but cleverly drive its protagonists towards making
Inneresting
🔌 Inneresting #263 - Who's got the power?
With scenes and sequences in a story, who has the power? Who's in control? And what will it take to change the character in the driver's seat?
Featured Friday
Featured Friday: Noir
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, like every week, I woke up with a feeling I couldn’t shake. Like a flame moving its way down a match, I could tell bad news was heading
Inneresting
🧬 Inneresting #262 - Human After All
or: How I Learned to Stop Trying to Turn Off the Feelings Marvin Gaye said, "Great artists suffer for the people." The First Noble Truth of the Buddha is The Truth of the Existence of Suffering. There are enough popular examples of the tortured artist stereotype to fill
Featured Friday
Featured Friday: Medical TV Shows
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we look at TV shows set in hospitals to see how writers can make one of the most complicated and difficult professions accessible to an audience, and how the
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Highland 2 vs Highland Pro: what changed, what stayed the same, and where to get it
Highland 2 has evolved into Highland Pro. It's the next generation of the app, now on Mac, iPad, and iPhone with one subscription and a 30-day free trial.
Inneresting
🪭 Inneresting #261 - Do you know your audience?
How can a story show it has a strong, personal understanding of its audience? Should a story start from there, or find its way?
Featured Friday
Featured Friday: Back to School
Weekend Read, our app for reading scripts on your phone, features a new curated collection of screenplays each week. This week, we head back to school with stories that capture the excitement (and ease the pain) of starting another academic year. Our collection includes: * 10 Things I Hate About You