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Is your hook too slow? Check a short video script before you film

You wrote a script for a Reel, a TikTok or a Short. It reads well. Then you film it and the first sentence takes six seconds to say, and the whole thing runs a minute over.

  • Hermes skill, short-video-script, generates structured scripts
  • Estimates speaking time for each line, flags long hooks
  • MIT licensed script available at Hermes skills repository

Hitting Art Hard With Innovation

The very existence of a show devoted to “Black abstraction” raises questions. Is it valid to continue to sort art by identity? On the evidence of “Hard Art,” the answer is yes.

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