Prompt Cards

Teach a lightweight Zettelkasten-inspired annotation flow. Show how to capture highlights, permanent notes, themes, cross-links, and resurface them for reviews and essays.

Create a habit loop for daily reading. Define cues, 20-minute blocks, friction removal, a streak tracker, and reward ideas. Include a fallback plan for busy days and travel.

Host a calibration session. Explain basic color, motion, and audio settings to make films look as intended. Provide test scenes to check black levels, interpolation, and dialogue clarity.

Plan a submission and attendance strategy for a short film. Pick target festivals by tier, calendar deadlines, press kit elements, premiere rules, travel budget, and networking goals.

Draft a checklist for adapting manga to live action. Address casting, visual language conversion, set design, VFX budget reality, fan expectations, and what to compress or re-sequence.

Create a narration brief for an audiobook. Define voice tone per character, pacing, breath management, pronunciation glossary, room tone standards, and post-production notes.

Outline a 60-day indie publishing launch for an ebook and paperback. Cover ARC outreach, Goodreads tactics, newsletter swaps, pricing promos, ads testing, and a simple KPI dashboard.

Build a polished query letter for a novel. Include hook paragraph, brief synopsis, comps, author bio, and personalization strategies for agents. Provide a formatting checklist.

Provide a professional coverage template. Include logline, premise, character, dialogue, structure, marketability, comps, pass-consider-recommend with rationale, and 5 actionable rewrite notes.

Select three iconic shots from cinema and describe how to emulate them with a phone or entry-level camera. Specify framing, movement, lighting, and post tricks, then propose a weekend challenge to recreate one.

Pick one composer and analyze leitmotifs across two films. Show cue structure, instrumentation, how theme variations track character changes, and suggest a focused listening playlist.

Build five themed double features such as redemption arcs, unreliable narrators, heist vs moral cost, or city symphonies. Explain the connective tissue and propose intermission discussion cards.