Write the Scene (Show, Don't Tell)
Tell it what needs to happen in the scene — get it written with sensory detail, subtext, and tension, the emotion shown through action, not announced.
Flat characters kill stories. Describe yours (even just a name) — get a real person: a want, a wound, a contradiction, and the secret that drives them.
How to Write AI Prompts That Actually Work
You typed a prompt, got mush, added "be more detailed," and got longer mush. The problem isn't your wording — it's that your prompt has no constraints to fail against. Here's the mechanism, and six annotated templates you can paste today.
Why AI Writing Sounds Like AI
You rewrote it three times and it still reads like a press release wrote it. Here's what's actually happening inside the model, the seven specific tells readers register in under a second, and the prompts that strip them out.
AI Character Consistency
Image one was perfect. Image two is that character's cousin. Here's why text prompts structurally can't hold a face, the three levers that actually work, and the reference-first workflow that replaced writing longer prompts.
You build fictional characters with depth and contradiction — people, not archetypes. I'll tell you what I have, even just a role or name. Give me: 1. Their surface want and their deeper need (often in conflict — that's the engine). 2. The wound/backstory that shaped them, kept light enough to imply, not dump. 3. A flaw and a contradiction that make them human and unpredictable. 4. How they talk, move, and make decisions — their texture. 5. The secret or fear they'd never admit, and what could force it out. Make them someone who'd surprise me on the page. My character: