AI story post generator: the prompt that checks brevity

Why a story is a different job

Language models tend to write more, not less. A story punishes that habit. It fills a vertical screen, it is seen briefly, and on most platforms it disappears after a short time. There is room for a few words, one picture and one thing to do.

Stories are also about now. A feed post can be evergreen. A story usually says something is happening today: a special, an open seat, a delivery that just arrived. A generator that returns a small flyer has missed the point of the format.

The prompt

Pick something true today. A taqueria, for example, might type: 'Create a story post: birria special today until we sell out.' Give the same sentence to every option.

Keep the request short on purpose. You want to see what the generator does with little material: stay small, or inflate one line into a paragraph of adjectives.

What a strong draft contains

Look at the draft on a phone held in one hand, for two seconds, and then look away. Whatever you remember is what the story says. A strong frame has these six things.

• One idea. The special, and nothing about the catering menu.
• Very few words. Set big enough to read with the phone held away from you.
• A full vertical frame. Made tall from the start, not a square with bars added.
• A cue that it is today. 'Today', 'tonight', 'until we sell out'.
• One action. Come in, tap the link, or reply.
• Clear edges. Nothing important at the very top or bottom, where the app's own buttons sit.

How weak drafts fail

Most of the failures below share a cause: the generator treated the story as a short caption.

• A feed post in a tall frame. A caption-length text block over a picture.
• Several offers at once. The special, the hours, the loyalty card.
• No sense of time. It could have been posted any day this year.
• A caption with no frame. Stories are visual. Words in a chat window are not a story post.
• Added facts. A price or an end time you did not give.

A second pass: three frames

If the single frame passes, ask for a sequence: 'Make it three story frames.' This checks pacing. A good sequence opens with the hook, gives one detail in the middle and closes with the action. A weak one repeats the same frame three times with the words shuffled.

Then grade as before: post as it is, post after edits, or start over. For stories, an edit usually means removing something.

Where Link AI fits

Link AI by Linkme gets our recommendation here for a plain reason: Linkme prints 'Create a story post' as an example request. The agent supplies the image or video along with the draft, and the draft waits for your approval. If a colleague drafted the story, it can sit at 'Needs review' until you have looked.

Linkme's page does not say which platforms' story formats a story post goes to, so put that question in the demo. Try Link AI in a demo with something true about your business today. The platform fit rubric covers the frame checks in more detail.

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