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Plan a month of short-form video in one sitting

Planning a little bit at a time is what makes people quit.

Do a whole month in one sitting instead, and let the calendar carry the rest.

6 steps2 min readUpdated 28 Sept 2026

  1. Step 1: Pick your platforms first

    TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts each take a video.

    Slideshows go out as TikTok photo posts or Instagram carousels, not to YouTube.

    Decide which platforms you are actually posting to before you plan anything else.

  2. Step 2: Choose three or four formats

    A format is a shape you already know works: hook, point, ending.

    Pick a handful from the format library, or ones you already trust.

    You are choosing shapes for the month, not deciding today's topic.

  3. Step 3: List a month of ideas in one sitting

    Thirty short lines, not thirty scripts. One idea per line.

    Rotate through your formats as you go, so no shape repeats twice in a row.

    This is the only creative part. Everything after it is production.

    TipDo this with a timer. Thirty ideas in thirty minutes beats three hours polishing the first ten.

  4. Step 4: Generate the batch

    Each video costs 20 credits to generate, and an image costs 1.

    Work through the list a few at a time, not all thirty at once.

    Keep the ones that match the idea, and drop the rest without ceremony.

  5. Step 5: Fill the calendar in one pass

    Open the Schedule and give each kept clip a platform, an account and a day.

    A content calendar laid out at once is one decision instead of thirty small ones.

    Spread your formats across the weeks so the feed does not repeat itself.

  6. Step 6: Leave the rest of the month alone

    The point of doing it in one sitting is not doing it again for four weeks.

    Check in weekly to approve what is coming, not daily to reinvent it.

    A plan you do not touch is the plan that actually survives the month.

A month of short-form video is a big task made of thirty small ones.

Do them all on the same afternoon, and the rest of the month is just watching it go out.

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