Create Social Media Content with AI Assistance
(3 chapters - approximately 30 Minutes)

1.Into to Social Media Content Creation

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the social media visual generation, where you will prepare your social media strategy and create social media content for your book with the assistance of AI.

As always, you remain in the driver’s seat. AI does not take control of the process; you give it direction and decide how it will assist you. Despite what some people may believe, using AI is not simply a matter of typing a few words and receiving a finished masterpiece.

You are in command. Your name will appear on the final work, and you are the author.

You begin with a short intake process. You will answer several questions, upload your story materials, and identify your primary social media objective. Using that information, AI will help prepare the character profiles, book bible, social media theme guide, and approved content concepts needed for your social media visuals.

In the next stage, you may upload visual references connected to your story, such as your book cover, character images, logo, or other established visual elements. These references will help AI create visuals that support your selected social media objective.

Your content may include book quotes, scene teasers, character-focused posts, book-release announcements, and other promotional concepts.

For every selected concept, you will create three versions:

Square image
Vertical image
Horizontal image

Each version is created in a social-media-ready format, so you can use it without manually changing the image dimensions.

There is one important requirement for this course: I recommend using a paid ChatGPT account. This workflow involves repeated file uploads, and image generation. Free accounts have stricter usage limits, including a limit of three file uploads per day, and image creation may also be more restricted than on paid plans.

Please also keep in mind that AI for Indie Authors is an independent platform. Neither this website nor I am affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or compensated by OpenAI.

2.Social Media Content Intake

This is the first lesson in which you will prepare your social media content concepts by giving AI the information it needs to understand your book.

In this chapter, you will download and complete an Excel workbook called the Social Media Content Intake. You will need to complete a separate workbook for each book for which you want to create social media content.

The workbook asks for information such as:

Your book title
Whether the book is part of a series
Its primary genre
Your target audience
The book’s release status
The main goal of your social media content, such as supporting sales, promoting a new release, or preparing for a launch
The type of content you want to create, such as character introductions, short excerpts, book-release announcements, and other promotional content

AI will use this information together with your supporting documents, such as your manuscript, character bios, or book bible, to prepare your Social Media Content Drafts document.

That document will include:

Summary of your character information
Summary of your book bible
Social media theme guide
Five social media concepts that can be used to prepare your marketing visuals

You will then review those concepts and select the ones you want to use in the image-generation stage.

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3.Social Media Visual Output

This chapter will show you how to create your social media visuals using the concepts from your Social Media Content Drafts document.

You will begin by uploading your approved Social Media Content Drafts document together with any supporting visual references you have, such as:

Your book cover
Character images
Your logo
Emblems
Established objects or symbols
Other relevant image files

Video files are not used in this process.

You will first select one of the approved concepts from your Social Media Content Drafts document. AI will then use that concept and your supporting images to create a Square visual.

After downloading the Square image, you will use it to create:

Vertical version
Horizontal version

At the end of the process, you will have Square, Vertical, and Horizontal visuals for the same approved concept.

You can repeat this process for the other concepts selected in your Social Media Content Drafts document. Each time, begin with the Square image, then use that same Square image to create the Vertical and Horizontal versions.

Video Length: 22.00 minutes

STEP - 1 (START HERE)

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1. Upload the completed intake (the Excel file you filled out)
2. Include the following files:
A. The manuscript/script
B. Character bios (when/if available)
C. Book bible (when/if available)
3. Receive your Social Media Content Drafts (MS Word document)
4. Review the document and select at least one approved concept

STEP - 2 (SQUARE)

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1. Upload Social Media Content Drafts
2. Upload up to three visual references, such as:
A. Character images
B. Book cover
C. Logo
D. Emblem
E. Important visual object
3. Generate the Square image

STEP - 3 (VERTICAL)

1. Go to your ChatGPT page
2. Click “New Chat” or select one of your chats
3. Upload the square image.
4. Copy & Paste the following prompt into ChatGPT
5. Submit your prompt

Recompose this image as a 9:16 vertical image. Preserve the same characters, clothing, setting, lighting, colors, and visual style. Do not crop or stretch the image. Do not add any text, captions, signs, logos, speech bubbles, or thought bubbles.

STEP - 4 (HORIZONTAL)

1. Go to your same Chat
2. Upload the square image.
3. Copy & Paste the following prompt into ChatGPT
4. Submit your prompt

Recompose this image as a 16:9 horizontal image. Preserve the same characters, clothing, setting, lighting, colors, and visual style. Do not crop or stretch the image. Do not add any text, captions, signs, logos, speech bubbles, or thought bubbles.

REPEAT

You can go back to STEP -1
Choose another concept in the Social Media Content Drafts (MS Word document)
Follow the same steps for another social media image

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