Write the Prompt in Layers, Not Soup
Structure a Midjourney prompt so the model gets a clear subject, environment, style, and control layer.
A prompt should read like a layered brief, not a word cloud. When a model produces generic or unstable images, the usual culprit is not that it ignored you. It is that you gave it a pile of tokens with no hierarchy. The model sees all the words, but it still has to decide which ones define the image and which ones merely decorate it. If everything feels equally important, the output drifts. Midjourney's own docs separate weighted prompt parts from parameters for exactly this reason. Your text prompt should establish the content of the image first. Then you can…
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