Roughly eight years ago, I wrote about the opposite of this. While I still find that idea compelling, let’s look at this from the other side. Back then the message was not to set everything in stone, but if you have an interesting character concept, just research it. There is someone in history who’s life applies to what you are doing.
Since in some of these the magic is the movie, I can’t really avoid spoilers, so I’m not going to.
I try not to watch YouTube Shorts, because it’s easy to just swipe to the next one and thus spend much more time then you were planning to. However, I had a few minutes of waiting, so I did just that. (It’s fine to watch them if you know your scrolling is going to be interrupted.)
Here we go again… You can imagine that as weakly or as enthuastically as you like.
First, it’s fine not to use them. I mean, I’ve done pretty well for decades without one, so how much is it going to help if I start using them now? Not much. Images would be helpful, because I can’t really draw, but I’ve always been very disappointed with the results from image generators. Video generators are worse.
The prompts used to make this video were:
So, below I’m going to be talking about where they can actually be helpful.
All of them previous ones.
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth (the Finnish edition)
Seventh
Note: My touchpad is acting up weirdly, which causes the cursor to sometimes jump, which means that as I’m writing, I’m suddenly adding characters to somewhere I didn’t mean to. So, if there’s weird words somewhere, this might be the reason.
That is an actual question. I can’t promise you an answer.
Thinking back it seems almost stupid that I hadn’t realized this previously…
This had been saved in my drafts for five years with just the title. However, I still do remember the original motivator for this piece.