Not sure what other people do but I write story. I make characters. I can't draw. I is poor and literally trying to gain new skills so I can get paid minimum wage. I write. I make prompt. I generate image until I see what I want. If I don't and I run out of free attempts? I go back the next day after it resets and keep trying. With different art styles and fine tune the prompt based on what the AI thinks it's giving me.

I want a specific texture? Keep generating images and futzing in paint. Usually the AI beats me to it, but I still have to tweak it. But it's still a ton better.

Example:

Have 12 different images I thought were close enough to try to work on for moth kissy. Kept generating them then working on modifying one to get "close enough". Day 3 it gives me something, a whole image, I can use. A lot of the images are clipped and super asymmetrical. But it's better than I can do. I don't just find an image, and make a story around it, and I do point out that I make the cover with AI image generator from a prompt.

Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

When I remake my synopsis trying to fine tune my shiz sometimes I forget to put it back up. But I've posted/admitted/confessed (gasp!) that I feed a prompt into a free site and praise it for the way it attempts to translate my ramblings. The attempts are great sometimes. So much nightmare fuel. Or cheap knockoff plushies. It's literally given me like wish.com review plushie images that trigger all kinds of buyer's remorse for things I haven't bought. 'Cause I'd rather have deodorant and phone time.