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it's day 1 (for me) of this challenge - which means it was brainstorming time with my good old friend Gemini ✨
if you're curious at all how I do this and how I take a super simple prompt and snowball it into a fully fledged idea that I'm extremely excited to now put into practice, watch the video below 👇
Using Gemini to snowball a simple prompt into a full concept is such a practical way to skip the blank-page stage. Do you take its output as a starting draft to heavily edit, or has it gotten close enough that you're mostly just refining tone at this point?
i'd say it's a truly back and forth thing, with me getting ideas based on what it says along the way
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