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  How Creators Should Actually Use AI Video Tools (Read Only If You Want to Publish Videos Faster Without Becoming Video Editors) By AI video tools, I always mean tools that help creators generate visuals, captions, or short videos — not full-scale professional video editors. Every time I open an AI video tool, I feel the same resistance. Not excitement.  Not curiosity.  Resistance. Timelines. Presets. Transitions. Export buttons everywhere. And I always think the same thing:   I didn’t want to learn video editing. I just wanted to post something. AI video tools are supposed to make things easier. But for a lot of creators, they do the opposite. Instead of helping us publish faster, they add one more thing to figure out. If you’re a writer, solo creator, or freelancer like me, this usually leads to one of two things: You overcomplicate video and burn out Or you avoid video entirely, even though you know it matters For a long time, I thought this meant I was...

You know that feeling when you finally sit down to write after a long workday, open a blank doc… and then freeze? You scroll through Twitter, LinkedIn, a few blogs, maybe even Google Trends—only to realize you’re already late. That topic everyone’s buzzing about? Half the internet has written on it already. And by the time you publish, the wave is gone. This delay isn’t just frustrating, it’s expensive. Time is our scarcest resource. We don’t want to waste hours chasing trends manually, only to end up with content that feels stale or generic. But AI can flip that by helping you find trending topics before they explode, filtering the noise, and surfacing ideas that actually fit your niche. That’s exactly what this post is about: how to find trending topics using AI so you publish faster, smarter, and without burning your evenings on endless scrolling. The AI Advantage in Trend Discovery Manually tracking trends is exhausting. You check Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Trends, maybe a few foru...