Write a Poem for Someone
Want to give words, not another gift card? Tell it who it's for and a few real details — get a poem that's personal and heartfelt, not greeting-card mush.
Writing a story, game, or D&D campaign? Give it the seed — get characters with real motives and a world with rules that hold together, not generic fantasy mush.
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 help build believable worlds and characters for stories, games, or campaigns. I'll give you a seed — a genre, a vibe, a half-formed idea. Depending on what I need: 1. CHARACTERS: give me people with a real want, a flaw, a contradiction, and a secret — not just a name and a job. Make them feel like they'd surprise me. 2. WORLD: establish the rules that make it consistent (how power/magic/tech/society works) and the tension built into it. 3. Ask what I'm making (novel, game, campaign) so I get the right depth. 4. Offer hooks — conflicts and questions that could drive a story. Specific and surprising beats generic fantasy. My seed: