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Two friends go hiking and use a selfie-stick. Narcissism loses in the end.

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2 Reviews | 7 pages | 5 years ago | Draft 1

#Selfie Stick #Hiking #Narcissism

Two friends go hiking and use a selfie stick. Narcissism loses in the end.

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A personal trainer obsessed with taking photos rather than appreciating the beauty races his trainee up a scenic mountain trail.

This was pretty well-written, though it kinda reads like a shooting script, though not quite. But the way the specific shots were written (the frames per second thing might go over some readers' head) made it easy to visualize, so I won't dock points for that. I went in blind, not knowing the genre, so the ending came pretty unexpectedly... which I liked a lot. It reminded me of a short called, "Spider" by Noah Edgerton (check it out). The charac...

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Michael Kospiah

A good first draft on an interesting theme.

Overall I enjoyed your story. The concept is very current and interesting. The story works as well as the character of Ken. The main problem for me was the flow. We were too often taken out of the story because of elements included in the description that shouldn't be there. We only need description or action lines, everything else takes us out of the script. For example, things like "Everyone else is at home streaming Netflix” or “Losing isn’t a...

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Marion Donnellier

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