Pick a depth. Each prompt opens in your AI pre-loaded with the lesson. Click a row to preview the prompt.
The blank page is where most first shorts die — you have a hook and a topic but staring at an empty document for twenty minutes kills the momentum you built. This is exactly what AI is good for: turning your idea and your chosen hook into a rough first draft in fifteen seconds, so you spend your energy editing instead of generating. But the draft is raw material, not a finished script — AI writes in a bland, everyone voice, tends to run long, and pads with filler. Your job is to direct it with a tight prompt and then cut it to your voice and to time. This is the Capstok pattern you'll use across the whole platform: the machine drafts fast, the human stays in control of taste and truth. A 30-second short is roughly 70-85 spoken words, so length discipline matters.
Give AI structure, not just "write me a script." Here is a real, paste-ready prompt: "Write a 30-second short-form video script. Topic: a $3 pasta dinner I ate through college. Open with this exact hook: 'This $3 dinner kept me alive in college.' Then give 3 fast steps, then close with a line that loops back to the hook. Target 75 spoken words. Write it as narration only, casual first-person, no scene directions, no emojis."
That prompt produces something like: "This $3 dinner kept me alive in college. Boil a handful of pasta — that's a dollar. While it cooks, crisp two cloves of garlic in olive oil till golden. Toss the pasta in with a splash of the starchy water and a pinch of chili flakes. That's it — thirty seconds, three bucks, and honestly I still make it now." Now you edit like a human. You count words (this is 62 — good, you have room). You change "a handful of pasta" to "a fistful" because that's how you'd actually say it. You read it out loud with a timer and cut anything that makes you stumble. If it runs to 40 seconds, you delete the least important step. The finished script is short enough to record in one breath's worth of confidence, and it sounds like you — not like a machine that has never eaten pasta.