Not sure how to structure it? Pick a format and get a proven beat skeleton — hook, body, CTA — each beat carrying a time budget and a prompt telling you what to write. It hands you the frame; you write the words.
Open a loop about your idea — a surprising claim or a "most people get this wrong".
Say why your idea matters to the viewer in one line.
Explain your idea with ONE concrete example or analogy. One idea, not three.
Land the "aha" — what they now understand about your idea.
Tell them the next thing to watch or do. Keep it to one action.
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Most weak Shorts aren't badly written — they're unstructured: a hook that arrives at second eight, a middle that circles, an ending that trails off instead of asking for anything. The four formats here are the structures that survive short-form: explainer, story, list, tutorial — each broken into beats with a time budget that keeps the payoff on schedule.
The outline deliberately stops at the frame. Each beat carries a writing prompt, not generated text — because the fastest way to sound like every other AI channel is to let a model choose your words. Structure is borrowable; voice isn't.
No — and that's deliberate. It gives you a battle-tested structure and a prompt per beat, but the words are yours. It's a frame, not a ghostwriter.
Explainer for teaching one idea, story for a moment with a turn, list for scannable tips, tutorial for a step-by-step. When in doubt, explainer travels furthest.
Short-form lives or dies on pacing. The suggested seconds keep your hook fast and your payoff on time, so the whole thing fits a 30–60s Short.
Score your opening line before you film it.
Shorts Metadata GeneratorTitle variants, description, hashtags and tags — publish-ready.
Script TimerEstimate runtime, scene count and reading grade from your script.
Caption SplitterBreak narration into clean, 9:16-safe caption cards.
Code Card GeneratorTurn a code snippet into a shareable PNG.
These tools sharpen one step. ReelMint takes a topic all the way to a published Short — editable scenes, narration, captions and one-click publish.
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